The New Covenant : Jewish Writers and the American Idea /

The New Covenant : Jewish Writers and the American Idea / Sam B. Girgus.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Girgus, Sam B., 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1984]
Subjects:
American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Judaism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jews > United States > Intellectual life.
Jewish fiction > History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
United States > Civilization > Jewish influences.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A poetics of the American idea: A new hero of thought in a new narrative
  • In search of the real America: Bernard Malamud
  • 2. Ideology and culture: The American way: from the colonial era to Louis Brandeis, Sidney Hillman, and the liberal consensus
  • A convert to America: sex, self, and ideology in Abraham Cahan
  • 3. The ghetto: shelter and prison: A portrait of the artist as a young Luther: Henry Roth
  • "Blut-und-eisen": Anzia Yezierska and the new self-made woman
  • The Jew as underground man: Philip Roth
  • 4. The book of America: Song of him-self: Norman Mailer
  • A true radical history: E.L. Doctorow
  • Postscript: toward a new consensus.

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