Roth after Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination

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Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roths retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roths works and career; it considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it speculates on Roths legacyparticularly the enduring quality of his novels that will continue to resonate long after his retirement.

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This collection of new essays is a most fitting tribute to the 'end' of Philip Roths long and prolific career. The rich and varied approaches to Roths fiction contained in these pages reflect the enduring influence of one of the major voices of late twentieth-early twenty first century American life and thought. Theessays artfully arranged in this volumeseamlessly and gracefully paint a portrait of this ingeniously complex writer of our time. -- Victoria Aarons, Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Trinity University
Gooblar and Pozorski are among the most dedicated Roth scholars around right now, and they have put together a lively collection of frequently original essays, all of which demonstrate intimate understanding of Roth's body of work. Individually, the essays place specific novels and even whole phases of Roth's writing in a richly intellectual and critical context, and as a whole, the collection demonstrates how the greatest living American novelist can continue to inspire new and inventive readings from a worthy cohort of dedicated critics. -- Dean Franco, Wake Forest University
Roth after Eighty is an excellent contribution to Roth scholarship. In essays by a distinguished roster of Roth scholars, it explores new aspects of Roth's American literary imagination, while weaving in a healthy dose of comparative literature. Its purview is at once refreshingly local and robustly cosmopolitan. -- Michael Kimmage, The Catholic University of America

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David Gooblar is a lecturer in the Rhetoric Department at the University of Iowa. Aimee Pozorski is professor of English and director of English Graduate Studies at Central Connecticut State University.