Reading the text that isn't there : paranoia in the nineteenth-century American novel / / Mike Davis
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.309353 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Conspiracies in literature | |
| Psychological fiction, American - History and criticism | |
| Literature and history - United States | |
| Paranoia in literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reading the text that isn't there |
| ISBN: | 1-135-87613-4 |
| 1-135-87614-2 | |
| 1-280-16517-0 | |
| 0-203-00605-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808472003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Literary criticism and cultural theory.