The multiple worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : eighteenth-century contexts, postmodern observations /

Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel 'Mason & Dixon' marked a deep shift in Pynchon's career and in American letters in general. All of Pynchon's novels had been socially and politically aware, marked by social criticism and a profound questioning of American values. They have ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2005.
Colección:Studies in American literature and culture.
Temas:
Pynchon, Thomas. > Mason & Dixon.
Mason, Charles, > 1728-1786 > In literature.
Dixon, Jeremiah > In literature.
Dixon, Jeremiah.
Mason, Charles, > 1728-1786.
Biographical fiction, American > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Literature and history > United States.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Scientists in literature.
Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 dans la littérature.
Dixon, Jeremiah dans la littérature.
Roman biographique américain > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Littérature et histoire > États-Unis.
Vie des pionniers dans la littérature.
Scientifiques dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Biographical fiction, American.
Literature.
Literature and history.
Postmodernism (Literature)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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 García-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.

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