Reading the Text That Isn't There: Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

ISBN-13: 9781138011670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str.

Mike Davis

Opis

Through an examination of the work of canonical 19th-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies from one narrative site to another, establishing a trajectory according to which paranoia is gradually shifted from within the consciousness of characters in fictional worlds to the world of the readers.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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