|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910450760703321 |
|
|
Autore |
Davis Mike Lee <1968-, > |
|
|
Titolo |
Reading the text that isn't there : paranoia in the nineteenth-century American novel / / Mike Davis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-135-87614-2 |
1-280-16517-0 |
0-203-00605-4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (176 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Literary criticism and cultural theory |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Conspiracies in literature |
Psychological fiction, American - History and criticism |
Literature and history - United States |
Paranoia in literature |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Wieland's Transformations: The Problem of Closure in the "Opening" American Novel; Chapter Two "Hidden Significance": The Marble Faun as Post Script to Seven Gables; Chapter Three Rhetorical Razors: "Lurking Significance" in the "Vexatious Coincidence" of Benito Cereno; Chapter Four Literary Cloaks, Practical Jokes, and The Esophagus Hoax: Concealment, Conspiracy and the Contrivance of History in Twain; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|