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Title:

The multiple worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : eighteenth-century contexts, postmodern observations / edited by Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

viii, 222 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pynchon, Thomas.--Mason & Dixon.
Biographical fiction, American--History and Criticism.
Mason, Charles,--1728-1786--In literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Literature and history--United States.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Dixon, Jeremiah--In literature.
Scientists in literature

Other Authors:

Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall, 1960-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index.

Contents:

"The space that may not be seen" : the form of historicity in Mason & Dixon / Mitchum Huehls -- The sweetness of immorality : Mason & Dixon and the American sins of consumption / Brian Thill -- Consumption on the frontier : food and sacrament in Mason & Dixon / Colin A. Clarke -- "America was the only place--" : American exceptionalism and the geographic politics of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Pedro Garc©Ưa-Caro -- Postmodernism at sea : the quest for longitude in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Umberto Eco's The island of the day before / Dennis M. Lensing -- Haunting and hunting : bodily resurrection and the occupation of history in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Justin M. Scott Coe -- "Our madmen, our paranoid" : enlightened communities and the mental state in Mason & Dixon / Ian D. Copestake -- General Wolfe and the weavers : re-envisioning history in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Frank Palmeri.

Series:

Studies in American literature and culture

ISBN:

9781571133182
1571133186 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60454247

LCCN:

2005014649

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)