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Author:

Davis, Mike Lee, 1968-

Title:

Reading the text that isn't there : paranoia in the nineteenth-century American novel / Mike Davis.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

ix, 185 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Conspiracies in literature
Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism.
Literature and history--United States.
Paranoia in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-182) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the Gothic logic of paranoia -- Wieland's transformations : the problem of closure in the "opening" American novel -- "Hidden significance" : the Marble faun as post script to Seven gables -- Rhetorical razors : "lurking significance" in the "vexatious coincidence" of Benito Cereno -- Literary cloaks, practical jokes, and the esophagus hoax : concealment, conspiracy, and the contrivance of history in Twain.

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

ISBN:

9780415971058
0415971055 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56370607

LCCN:

2004019852

Locations:

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