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

Series Preface \ Acknowledgments \ \Introduction: Roth's America \ Part 1: American Pastoral \ Introduction to Part 1 \ 2 "What was not supposed to happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened": Subverting History in American Pastoral, David Brauner \ 3. The Critique of the Pastoral, Utopia, and the American Dream in American Pastoral, Andrew Gordon \ 4. America's Haunted House: The Racial and National Uncanny in American Pastoral, Jennifer Glaser \ Part II: The Human Stain \ Introduction to Part 2 \ 5. Race, Recognition, and Responsibility in The Human Stain, Dean Franco \ 6. Possessed by the Past: History, Nostalgia, and Language in The Human Stain, Catherine Morley \ 7. "The Pointless Meaningfulness of Living": Illuminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet Letter, Gabrielle Seeley and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky \ Part III: The Plot Against America \ Introduction to Part 3 \ 8. Just Folks Homesteading: Roth's Doubled Plots Against America ,Brett Ashley Kaplan \ 9. My Life as a Boy: The Plot Against America, Elaine M. Kauvar \ 10. Autobiography and History in The Plot Against America, or What Happened When Hitler Came to New Jersey, Timothy Parrish \ Collected Notes \ Works Cited \ Further Reading \ Notes on Contributors \ Index