Before revision: Metahistorical romance--such as Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon--attempts to recuperate the sublime untouchability of the past, to reach History and know it, but paradoxically in the context of the political.
After revision: Metahistorical romance—such as Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon—attempts to recuperate the sublime untouchability of the past, to reach History and know it, but paradoxically in the context of the political.