Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America

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Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1   Introduction: Roth’s America
Part I  American Pastoral
	Introduction
	Chapter 2   “What was not supposed to happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened”: Subverting History in American Pastoral
	Chapter 3   The Critique of the Pastoral, Utopia, and the American Dream in American Pastoral
	Chapter 4   America’s Haunted House: The Racial and National Uncanny in American Pastoral
Part II  The Human Stain
	Introduction
	Chapter 5   Race, Recognition, and Responsibility in The Human Stain
	Chapter 6     Possessed by the Past: History, Nostalgia, and Language in The Human Stain
	Chapter 7     “The pointless meaningfulness of living”: Illuminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet Letter
Part III  The Plot Against America
	Introduction
	Chapter 8     Just Folks Homesteading: Roth’s Doubled Plots Against America
	Chapter 9     My Life as a Boy: The Plot Against America
	Chapter 10   Autobiography and History in Roth’s The Plot Against America, or What Happened When Hitler Came to New Jersey
Notes on Chapters
Works Cited
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index