Philip Roth and the American liberal tradition /Andy Connolly.
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Book, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
""Notes""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Preamble""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 2""; ""â#x80;#x9C;Redfaceâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""Refining Motives: Anti-Communist Liberals in Post-War America""; ""Dialogic Interaction between Murray and Zuckerman""; ""Murrayâ#x80;#x99;s Story""; ""Zuckermanâ#x80;#x99;s Story""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Shattering of the Liberal Consensus in American Pastoral""; ""The Liberal Consensus and Its Discontents""; ""The Swedeâ#x80;#x99;s De-vitalized Center""; ""The New Right and the Politics of Nostalgia""; ""Zuckerman and the Swede: Narrative Framing""; ""Newark Maid Productions"" ""Hidden Traumas of Race and Gender in the Swedeâ#x80;#x99;s Pastoral""""Re-enter Zuckerman""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 4""; ""â#x80;#x9C;Nothing lasts, and yet nothing passesâ#x80;#x9D;1""; ""The Culture Wars in Late-Century America""; ""Americaâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x9C;Persecuting Spiritâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""Writing in â#x80;#x9C;competition with deathâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""Passing and Writing""; ""Whiteness, Class, and the Limits of Citizenship""; ""Passing and the Literary Canon""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Exit Ghost""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 6""; ""The Beginning as End""; ""Notes""
This book offers a combined historical and aesthetic analysis of five novels from Philip Roth's later career. It reads these works in the context of political, cultural, and literary developments in America from the New Deal to the present.