TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gertzman,Jay A.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Samuel Roth: infamous modernist 
SN  - 9780813045085
AV  - Z473.R78 G47 2013
U1  - 070.5092B 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Roth, Samuel,
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - United States
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1893-1916: From a Galician shtetl to Columbia University -- 1917-1925: Prelude to an international protest: a rising, pugnacious man of letters -- 1925-1927: "Damn his impertinence. Bloody crook": Roth publishes Joyce -- 1928-1934: Roth must live: a successful business and its bankruptcy -- 1934: Jews must live: "we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it" -- 1934-1939: A stretch in the federal penitentiary -- 1940-1949: Roth breaks parole, uncovers a Nazi plot, gives "Dame Post Office" fits, and tells his own story in mail-order advertising copy -- 1949-1952: Times Square, Peggy Roth, Southern Gothic, Celine, and Nietzsche -- 1952-1957: The Windsors, Winchell, Kefauver: back to Lewisburg -- 1958-1974: "It had been a long time since someone like you had appeared in the world": Roth fulfills his mission
N2  - A biography of Samuel Roth, who was instrumental in challenging literary censorship in the early twentieth century and in bringing modernist texts to the masses
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813045085/
ER  -