The multiple worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
Subtitle: eighteenth-century contexts, postmodern observations
By: edited by Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds.
Contributors: Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall, 1960-
Series: Studies in American literature and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Pynchon, Thomas.; Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 -- In literature.; Dixon, Jeremiah -- In literature.; Biographical fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Literature and history -- United States.; Frontier and pioneer life in literature.; Scientists in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The space that may not be seen" : the form of historicity in Mason & Dixon / Mitchum Huehls; title: The sweetness of immorality : Mason & Dixon and the American sins of consumption / Brian Thill; title: Consumption on the frontier : food and sacrament in Mason & Dixon / Colin A. Clarke; title: "America was the only place; title: " : American exceptionalism and the geographic politics of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Pedro García-Caro; title: 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; title: Haunting and hunting : bodily resurrection and the occupation of history in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Justin M. Scott Coe; title: "Our madmen, our paranoid" : enlightened communities and the mental state in Mason & Dixon / Ian D. Copestake; title: General Wolfe and the weavers : re-envisioning history in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Frank Palmeri.