Michael Kimmage 
In History’s Grip [EPUB ebook] 
Philip Roth’s Newark Trilogy

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In History’s Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America’s greatest writers, and in particular on American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features a protagonist who grows up in and then leaves Newark, after which he is undone by a historically generated crisis. The city’s twentieth-century decline from immigrant metropolis to postindustrial disaster completes the motif of history and its terrifying power over individual destiny.

In History’s Grip is the first critical study to foreground the city of Newark as the source of Roth’s inspiration, and to scrutinize a subject Roth was accused of avoiding as a younger writer—history. In so doing, the book brings together the two halves of Roth’s decades-long career: the first featuring characters who live outside of history’s grip; the second, characters entrapped in historical patterns beyond their ken and control.

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Michael Kimmage is Associate Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. His is the author of
The Conservative Turn (2009).

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 216 ● ISBN 9780804783675 ● Taille du fichier 0.5 MB ● Maison d’édition Stanford University Press ● Publié 2012 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5208236 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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