Abstract:

Readings of American Pastoral commonly center on the failures or limitations of the American dream, on the multi-generational immigrant experience of upward mobility and ethnic assimilation, and/or on the political and cultural convulsions of the 1960s. To set the book beside To the Lighthouse is to place it within a broader transnational context and subsume Roth the historian of twentieth-century America to Roth the metahistorian and metaphysician reflecting on forces of destruction inimical to civilized order and operative across time. The aim of this essay is twofold: to situate American Pastoral more firmly within the revolutionary context of the 1960s and at the same time, through Woolf, to consider its historicism as it extends beyond the story of the Levovs and America to a disorder latent in things and capable of erupting at any time.

摘要：

《美国牧歌》的阅读通常集中在美国梦的失败或局限、向上流动和种族同化的多代移民经历，和/或 1960 年代的政治和文化动荡。将这本书放在《去灯塔》旁边，就是将其置于更广泛的跨国语境中，并将二十世纪美国历史学家罗斯归入形而上学家罗斯，反思对文明秩序有害且跨时间运作的破坏力。这篇文章的目的有两个：定位美国田园牧歌 更坚定地在 1960 年代的革命背景下，同时通过伍尔夫，考虑它的历史主义，因为它超越了列沃夫和美国的故事，延伸到事物中潜在的、随时可能爆发的混乱。