In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) - Image 1

£47.89

Stanford University Press In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)

Name: In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
Brand: Stanford University Press
Price: 47.89 GBP
Availability: InStock

Poetry, Drama & Criticism

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 1 month ago.

£48 today · all-time low £48 (Jun 2026) · usually £48

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 86 days · 86 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 86 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £60 (56 days, 65.1%)

Price range: £48 - £60

Price levels: 2 different prices over 86 days

Description

In History's Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular on American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features a protagonist who grows up in and then leaves Newark, after which he is undone by a historically generated crisis. The city's twentieth-century decline from immigrant metropolis to postindustrial disaster completes the motif of history and its terrifying power over individual destiny. In History's Grip is the first critical study to foreground the city of Newark as the source of Roth's inspiration, and to scrutinize a subject Roth was accused of avoiding as a younger writer―history. In so doing, the book brings together the two halves of Roth's decades-long career: the first featuring characters who live outside of history's grip; the second, characters entrapped in historical patterns beyond their ken and control.

Product Specifications

Brand: Stanford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0804781826
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 August 2012
Listed Since: 25 April 2012

Barcode

No barcode data available

Stanford University Press In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 1 month ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work (Elgar Research Handbooks in Information Law series)

Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir

The Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The Destruction of a Civilization 1790-1945

Fred Zinnemann: Interviews (CONVERSATIONS WITH FILMMAKERS)

John Steinbeck's Global Dimensions

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America (Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction)

Winter Garden by Pan - Bestselling Family Saga Novel

The Silence In Between - Historical Novel About Berlin Wall

My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová

The Politics of Contested Narratives: Biographical Approaches to Modern European History

Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969

E.L. Doctorow: A Reconsideration

The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance

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

Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography: 150 (Costerus New Series, 150)

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe: South Africa 1977-78

My Struggle for Peace, Vol. 2 (1955): The Diary of Moshe Sharett, 1953–1956 (Perspectives on Israel Studies)

A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (Signs of Race)

History, Literature, Critical Theory

«My Name is Freida Sima»: The American-Jewish Women’s Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger's Memoirs

Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works: Interdisciplinary Essays: 52 (Buchreihe Der Anglia / Anglia Book Series, 52)

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 1918-1968: 2