Reading the text that isn't there
Subtitle: paranoia in the nineteenth-century American novel
By: Mike Davis.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: 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 and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Gothic logic of paranoia; title: Wieland's transformations : the problem of closure in the "opening" American novel; title: "Hidden significance" : the Marble faun as post script to Seven gables; title: Rhetorical razors : "lurking significance" in the "vexatious coincidence" of Benito Cereno; title: Literary cloaks, practical jokes, and the esophagus hoax : concealment, conspiracy, and the contrivance of history in Twain.