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UNINA9910155651203321 |
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Titolo |
A study guide for Mark Reisner's "cadillac desert : the American West and its disappearing water" / / editor Elizabeth Thomason |
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Farmington Hills, Michigan : , : The Gale Group, , 2001 |
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©2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (28 pages) |
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Nonfiction Classics for Students, , 1533-7561 ; ; Volume 2 |
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Irrigation - Government policy - West (U.S.) - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910964889803321 |
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Autore |
Davis Mike Lee <1968-> |
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Titolo |
Reading the text that isn't there : paranoia in the nineteenth-century American novel / / Mike Davis |
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New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
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1-135-87613-4 |
1-135-87614-2 |
1-280-16517-0 |
0-203-00605-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Conspiracies in literature |
Psychological fiction, American - History and criticism |
Literature and history - United States |
Paranoia in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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