American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth

by Thomas Gustafson

One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth's 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old Rimrock mythic, but it is based on a very real place: the small Morris county town of Brookside, New Jersey.

American Anti-Pastoral reads the events in Roth's novel in relation to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978838034
• ISBN13: 9781978838031
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher