States of Trial: Manhood in Philip Roth's Post-War America

by Ann Basu

Book Overview

This study of five towering Philip Roth novels - Operation Shylock, the American Pastoral trilogy, and The Plot Against America - explores his vision of a turbulent post-war America personified in trial-racked Jewish American men. These works collectively register the impact of post-1945 upheavals upon the nation and American trial-based myths about wholesomeness and regeneration. Roth shows how the "stories of old" which moulded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501320424
• ISBN13: 9781501320422
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"