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001 2005014649
003 DLC
005 20051222110456.0
008 050519s2005 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005014649
020 $a1571133186 (acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aPS3566.Y55$bM3736 2005
082 00 $a813/.54$222
245 04 $aThe multiple worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon :$beighteenth-century contexts, postmodern observations /$cedited by Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds.
260 $aRochester, NY :$bCamden House,$c2005.
300 $aviii, 222 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in American literature and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index.
505 0 $a"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.
600 10 $aPynchon, Thomas.$tMason & Dixon.
650 0 $aBiographical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aMason, Charles,$d1728-1786$xIn literature.
650 0 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLiterature and history$zUnited States.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life in literature.
600 10 $aDixon, Jeremiah$xIn literature.
650 0 $aScientists in literature.
700 1 $aHinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall,$d1960-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005014649.html