Mike Davis

Reading the Text That Isn't There (eBook, ePUB)

Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135876135
• Artikelnr.: 47892735

Autorenporträt

Mike Davis earned his Ph.D. in 2002 from Princeton University, where he conducted his own research concerning the American novel in addition to assisting Professor Arnold Rampersad in the preparation of the Harlem Renaissance section of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. He is currently a Dean's Appointment at Temple University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Gothic Logic of Paranoia
Chapter 1. Wieland's Transformations: The Problem of Closure in the "Opening" American Novel
Chapter 2. "Hidden Significance": The Marble Faun as Post Script to Seven Gables
Chapter 3. Rhetorical Razors: "Lurking Significance" in the "Vexatious Coincidence" of Benito Cereno
Chapter 4. Literary Cloaks
Practical Jokes
and the Esophagus Hoax: Concealment
Conspiracy
and the Contrivance of History in Twain
Notes
Bibliography
Index