Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth’s acclaimed 1997 novel American Pastoral draws upon the history of Brookside, New Jersey as its model for the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock. American Anti-Pastoral peels back myths about the bucolic Garden State countryside to reveal deep fissures within the heart of American democracy.
Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth’s acclaimed 1997 novel American Pastoral draws upon the history of Brookside, New Jersey as its model for the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock. American Anti-Pastoral peels back myths about the bucolic Garden State countryside to reveal deep fissures within the heart of American democracy.
THOMAS GUSTAFSON is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865. Born and raised in Brookside, he now calls Echo Park in Los Angeles his home.
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List of Illustrations Abbreviations Prologue Part I Dismal Harmony 1 The Office of Letters and the Bomb: Brookside and Old Rimrock 2 Fourth of July Parade 3 Indigenous American Berserk 4 Fig Leaf: The Voice of the Pastoral 5 Walled Garden Part II Babel 6 All Babel Breaks Loose 7 Inside the Territory: Myth and History 8 Harmony: Bill Orcutt's WASP History Tour 9 Dissonance: Bucky Robinson's Jewish History Tour 10 Counterfactual: Beatrice and George Jenkins Sr.'s Black History Tour of Morristown 11 On the Dead-End Dirt Road: The Quiet Babel of Stoney Hill Road and Where Goodbye Newark Meets Goodbye Orchard 12 Brookside Bards: Steven Cramer's Poetry of Protest and Christopher Merrill's Poetry of Place Part III Pentecost Remembered and Lost 13 Brookside against the Current 14 NIMBY: Protecting Green Space with Green Money 15 The Price of Harmony 16 The Table of Otherhood and Communion 17 The Community Club and Its Dissidents 18 American Pastoral and Revolutions of the Word Epilogue: "The Great New Jersey Novel": American Pastoral and the Garden State of Letters Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Abbreviations Prologue Part I Dismal Harmony 1 The Office of Letters and the Bomb: Brookside and Old Rimrock 2 Fourth of July Parade 3 Indigenous American Berserk 4 Fig Leaf: The Voice of the Pastoral 5 Walled Garden Part II Babel 6 All Babel Breaks Loose 7 Inside the Territory: Myth and History 8 Harmony: Bill Orcutt's WASP History Tour 9 Dissonance: Bucky Robinson's Jewish History Tour 10 Counterfactual: Beatrice and George Jenkins Sr.'s Black History Tour of Morristown 11 On the Dead-End Dirt Road: The Quiet Babel of Stoney Hill Road and Where Goodbye Newark Meets Goodbye Orchard 12 Brookside Bards: Steven Cramer's Poetry of Protest and Christopher Merrill's Poetry of Place Part III Pentecost Remembered and Lost 13 Brookside against the Current 14 NIMBY: Protecting Green Space with Green Money 15 The Price of Harmony 16 The Table of Otherhood and Communion 17 The Community Club and Its Dissidents 18 American Pastoral and Revolutions of the Word Epilogue: "The Great New Jersey Novel": American Pastoral and the Garden State of Letters Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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