Philip Roth’s Political Thought
This book looks at the political thought of one of the giants of American literature: Philip Roth. Roth’s depiction of American life may initially appear provincial, American-Jewish…
This book looks at the political thought of one of the giants of American literature: Philip Roth. Roth’s depiction of American life may initially appear provincial, American-Jewish…
What can Philip Roth tell us about politics today? What can the author of The Human Stain, American Pastoral, and The Plot Against America tell us about…
Scholarly efforts to situate Philip Roth’s fiction within a political or historical framework can prove arduous and difficult. Indeed, his writing is so rich in literary innovation…
Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition. Andy Connolly. Lexington Books, 2017. Since January 2017, some of us may have felt the urge to re-visit, either…
Sojourns in the Western Twilight: Essays in Honor of Tom Darby. Robert C. Sibley and Janice Freamo, eds. Eastern Townships, Québec: Fermentation Press, 2016. Sojourns in…
Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Western Liberal Democracies. David Edward Tabachnick and Leah Bradshaw, eds., Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. Multiculturalism is among the ambivalences of our…
Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards. Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig. Lexington Books, 2017. David Adams Richards is a Canadian novelist and…
I finished my last article in this very VoegelinView claiming that only with a conscious acceptance and participation in the real, mankind (especially the Western part of…
In his poem My Last Duchess, first published in 1842, Robert Browning creates one of the rarest types of character in literature: the phaulos. Understood in the…
The extraordinary pearl of the tortured genius of Gustave Flaubert—the novel, Madame Bovary—exemplifies the kind of captivating puzzle that attracts attention well beyond the world of literary…
The legacy of eccentricity that nineteenth century poet Emily Dickinson left for the rest of us to unravel after her death in 1886 has proven highly marketable…
In the first half of the nineteenth-century, the question of history – its origins, its continuing burden, and the possibility of transcending it – preoccupied American thinkers,…
In a chapter in The Conservative Mind titled “Transitional Conservatism: New England Sketches,” Russell Kirk cited John Quincy Adams, Orestes Brownson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne as figures in…
In his Inaugural Address, President Trump intoned that “we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we…
There are many ways to arrive at an unknown destination. Some rely on a map and seldom diverge from the path they have planned out while others…