The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth presents state-of-the-art scholarship on new research methods, current debates, and future directions in Philip Roth studies. It illuminates how Roth, one of the most influential American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, not only reflected American history and culture in his important novels but uncannily anticipated our American future. Divided into six main sections, this Handbook considers such topics: - The full range of Roth''s writing, from his novels and short stories to essays and life writing - Major interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives across literary studies, politics, gender studies, critical race theory, and ecocriticism - Roth''s literary legacy across contemporary fiction, Jewish literature, the arts, and culture studies - Key contexts including American political movements since the 1950s, the American Jewish experience, and intertextual relationships Uniting scholars and artists who have built the field of Philip Roth studies from the ground up along with emergent scholars from around the world, this Handbook includes chapter summaries, study questions, and an author biography and timeline that includes key dates in Roth''s life and publication history. It also contains a bibliography of secondary sources for further reading as well as an overview of film and television adaptations.

Autorentext
Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, USA, where she also coordinates the Racial Justice Certificate. She is the author of AIDS-Trauma and Politics (2019), Falling After 9-11: Art and Literature in Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010) (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2011). She is Co-executive Editor, with Maren Scheurer, of Philip Roth Studies, and is past President of the Philip Roth Society (2009-2015). Maren Scheurer is a Researcher and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and English Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She has published on psychoanalytic aesthetics in contemporary media and the transformations of realism in late nineteenth-century literature, and she is co-editor, with Aimee Pozorski, of Philip Roth's Trans-Disciplinary Translations.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University*, USA)and Maren Scheurer(Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)*
Timeline

I. Roth Through the Genres

1. Philip Roth's Novels: A Matter of Ventriloquism
   Pia Masiero (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
2. Divided Selves in Roth's Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
   Victoria Aarons (Trinity University, St. Antonio, USA)
3. "Begging the Question": Philip Roth's Life Writing
   Melissa Schuh (University of Kiel, Germany)
4. Liberalism, Autonomy, and the Open Mind in Philip Roth's Drama of the 1960s
   Joshua Powell (Cardiff University, UK)
5. Philip Roth's Nonfiction: A Personal Unmasking
   Elèna Mortara (University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy)

6. "By Now What You Are Is a Walking Text": Philip Roth's Editorial Contexts, Roles, and Imagination
   Jack Knowles (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

   II. Roth Across Disciplines

7. Dream a Little Dream: Music as Counternarrative in Philip Roth's Fiction
   Matthew Shipe (Washington University of St. Louis, USA)
8. Roth's Existential Lesson in Identity and Irony
   Valérie Roberge (Université de Laval, Canada)
9. Safe at Home? Philip Roth and Sports
   Mike Witcombe (Bath Spa University, UK)
10. Philip Roth and Fine Art
    David Brauner (University of Reading, UK)

11. Roth and Religion: Nemesis, or Roth's Quarrel with God
    Timothy Parrish (University of California, Davis, USA)

    12. "Anagramists and Manure-Spreaders": Philip Roth and the Academy
        David Gooblar (The University of Iowa, USA)

    III. History and Politics

12. Roth and Politics: The Representative Writer Masquerading as Bartleby the Citizen
    Claudia Brühwiler (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
13. The Deception of Democracy in Philip Roth's Fiction
    Dean Franco (Wake Forest University, USA)
14. "Our Fathers' Sons and Our Neighborhood's Creatures": Upwards Mobility and the Welfare State in Roth's Fiction
    Daniel Dufournaud (York University, Toronto, Canada)
15. "Slipping the Punch": Philip Roth and Racial Passing
    Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University*, USA)*
16. How History Uses Us: Philip Roth, the Holocaust, and American History
    James Wigren (Central Connecticut State University, USA)

17. The Many Diasporas of Nathan Zuckerman
    Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading, UK)

    IV. New Directions in Roth Studies

18. Against the "Terror of Seeing": Old Age and Disability in Philip Roth's Later Novels
    Maren Scheurer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
19. Countering Pastoral: Philip Roth and Ecology
    Eric Leonidas (Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, USA)
20. Suburb, Settlement, Village: Roth on Whiteness and Landscape in the US and Beyond
    Naomi Taub (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign*, USA)*
21. Philip Roth's Anatomy Lessons
    Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
22. Jews That Matter: Philip Roth and the Body
    Joshua Lander (University of Glasgow, UK)

23. The Counterlife: On Roth's Queers
    RL Goldberg (Princeton University, USA)

    V. Adaptations and Influences

24. Roth's Legacy and Cancel Culture
    Miriam Jaffe Foger (Rutgers University, Newark, USA)
25. Counter-Roth's: Nicole Krauss, Lisa Halliday, and Roth's Legacy
    Michael Kalisch (University of Oxford, UK)
26. Roth Abroad
    Brett Ashley Kaplan (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA)
27. Roth and Adaptation
    Debra Shostak (Wooster College, Ohio, USA)

28. Roth Exhibited: An Interview with Bryan Zanisnik
    Bryan Zanisnik (Hunter College, USA; Practicing Artist in NYC)

    VI. Shop Talk

29. Philip Roth and a Pedagogy of Compassion
    Maggie McKinley (Harper College, Chicago, USA)
30. Nemeses: Roth and His Biographers
    Jesse Tisch (Independent Scholar, USA)
31. Censorship and Translation in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, The Breast, and The Professor of Desire
    Gustavo S*á*nchez Canales (University of Madrid, Spain)

32. The Philip Roth Personal Library in Newark: Genesis, Purpose, and Contents
    Tim Crist (Newark Library, USA), Nadine Sergejeff (Newark Library, USA), and Rosemary Steinbaum (Newark Library, USA)

    Appendix:

33. Annotated Bibliography
    Connor E. Dombal (Central Connecticut University, USA)
34. Uncollected Published Stories: An Annotated Inventory
    James D. Bloom (Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA)

35. A Guide to Film and Television Adaptations of Roth's Fiction
    Deborah Shostak (Wooster College, USA)

    Index