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Early American historians should note the anger that early modern English labouring people sometimes displayed towards their rulers: notably, that evidence challenges nationalist characterisations of social relations, in which the values of hierarchical, status-bound Ancien regime Europe are contrasted to the rugged individualism and lack of deference allegedly obtaining within seventeenth and eighteenth century America.
It is probable that certain generalisations can be made after sufficient study, although some will be pretty "coarse grain" characterisations.
However clever, these bits of historical "anti-realism" (as many have called them) and verbal asides make it difficult to engage with the actual beauty of Roth's writing: his excellent characterisations and rather sensual depiction of Newark during the 1940s:
 
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