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and Philip Roth’s ‘American Trilogy,’” Canadian Review of American
Studies , 37 (2007), 431–452.
46. Aaron Michael Keck, “One Nation: Cosmopolitanism and the Making
of American Identity from Madison to Lincoln” (PhD diss., Rutgers
University, 2008), p. 33.
47. Leo Marx, “On Recovering the ‘Ur’ Theory of American Studies,”
Theories of American Culture, Theories of American Studies , 19 (2003),
3–18 (p. 12).
4 8. I b i d.
4 9. S e e p p. 1 1 – 1 2.
50. Terry Gifford, “Post-Pastoral as a Tool for Ecocriticism,” in Pastoral
and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-Inscribed , ed. Mathilde Skoie and Sonia
Bj ø rnstad Vel á zquez (Exter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2006), pp. 14–26
(p. 17).
51. See John Barrell and John Bull, The Penguin Book of English Pastoral
Verse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), p. 432.
5 2. I b i d.
53. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1973), pp. 46–47.
54. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral
Ideal in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 3.
5 5. I b i d. , p p. 1 0 – 1 1.
5 6. I b i d. , p. 1 1.
5 7. T e r r y G i f f o r d , Pastoral: The New Critical Idiom (New York: Routledge,
1999), p. 3.
5 8. W i l l i a m s , Country , p. 39.
5 9. I b i d. , p. 3 0 2.
6 0. I b i d. , p. 2 8 8.
61. Franz Rosenzweig, Der Stern der Erlosung (Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp, 1921), p. 98.
62. Ibid, p. 29.
6 3. I b i d.
64. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson ,
ed. Brooks Atkinson (New York: Modern Library, 2000), p. 739.
6 5. P o s n o c k , Tr u t h , p. 116.
66. To clarify this point, I explain above how the novel’s brief description
of Coleman’s father prompts the reader to consider the material bases
for segregation and ethnic inequality.
6 7. E m e r s o n , p. 7 3 9.
6 8. J a m e s o n , Political Unconscious , p. 91.