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

By: Davis, MikeMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory SerPublisher: Florence : Routledge, 2004Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203006054Subject(s): American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Conspiracies in literature | Literature and history -- United States | Paranoia in literature | Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading the Text That Isn't There : Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century NovelDDC classification: 813.309 LOC classification: PS374.C594 -- D385 2005ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A SURVEY OF TERMS -- MORE RATIONAL THAN REASON ITSELF -- THE ARCHITECTONICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: GOTHIC STRUCTURES AND PANOPTICONS -- OTHER ORDERS BEHIND THE VISIBLE -- THE REVISIONARY TRAJECTORY -- Chapter One Wieland's Transformations: The Problem of Closure in the "Opening" American Novel -- WHERE TO BEGIN -- V-LAND, WE-LAND, VY-LAND, WHY-LAND? -- A MATTER OF CONTEXT -- UNDERWRITING/OVERREADING -- IS THERE SUCH A THING AS HYSTERICAL SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION? -- SHOULD WE BELIEVE HER (EVEN IF SHE ASKS US NOT TO)? -- TRIAL (& TRIAL) & ERROR (& ERROR & TRIAL) -- LOOSE ENDS OF A MANGLED TALE -- STRUCTURAL LITERARY NATIONALISM -- Chapter Two "Hidden Significance": The Marble Faun as Post Script to Seven Gables -- HAWTHORNE REVISING HAWTHORNE -- A COMMON THREAD -- A CONSPIRACY OF IMITATIONS -- IMITATION OF ROMANCE -- IMPLICATIONS OF IMITATION -- RECONSIDERING GABLES AS A MURDER MYSTERY -- IMITATION OF CONSPIRACY -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter Three Rhetorical Razors: "Lurking Significance" in the "Vexatious Coincidence" of Benito Cereno -- IMPLICATIONS ABOUT THE IMPLIED READER -- THINGS AND WHAT THEY ARE CALLED -- AT FIRST GLANCE: BENITO CERENO -- AT FIRST GLANCE: THE SAN DOMINICK -- THINGS TAKEN PERSONALLY -- CONSPIRACY -- DELANO'S MOTIVES -- THE READER'S MOTIVES -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter Four Literary Cloaks, Practical Jokes, and The Esophagus Hoax: Concealment, Conspiracy and the Contrivance of History in Twain -- TAKING HUMOR SERIOUSLY-AN INTRODUCTION -- THE PARTICULARS OF THE CASE -- SITUATING THE PARTICULARS OF THE CASE -- SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: DETECTION -- SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: HAPLESS HOAXES -- SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: EXTRA-TEXTUAL PERSECUTION -- SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: TWAIN'S READERSHIP -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ESOPHAGUS.
TWAIN'S HISTORY OF PRACTICAL JOKES (AND HIS PRACTICAL JOKE OF HISTORY) -- HANK AND JOAN AND MARK -- ABANDONING THE ESOPHAGUS -- CLOSING THOUGHTS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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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Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A SURVEY OF TERMS -- MORE RATIONAL THAN REASON ITSELF -- THE ARCHITECTONICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: GOTHIC STRUCTURES AND PANOPTICONS -- OTHER ORDERS BEHIND THE VISIBLE -- THE REVISIONARY TRAJECTORY -- Chapter One Wieland's Transformations: The Problem of Closure in the "Opening" American Novel -- WHERE TO BEGIN -- V-LAND, WE-LAND, VY-LAND, WHY-LAND? -- A MATTER OF CONTEXT -- UNDERWRITING/OVERREADING -- IS THERE SUCH A THING AS HYSTERICAL SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION? -- SHOULD WE BELIEVE HER (EVEN IF SHE ASKS US NOT TO)? -- TRIAL (& TRIAL) & ERROR (& ERROR & TRIAL) -- LOOSE ENDS OF A MANGLED TALE -- STRUCTURAL LITERARY NATIONALISM -- Chapter Two "Hidden Significance": The Marble Faun as Post Script to Seven Gables -- HAWTHORNE REVISING HAWTHORNE -- A COMMON THREAD -- A CONSPIRACY OF IMITATIONS -- IMITATION OF ROMANCE -- IMPLICATIONS OF IMITATION -- RECONSIDERING GABLES AS A MURDER MYSTERY -- IMITATION OF CONSPIRACY -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter Three Rhetorical Razors: "Lurking Significance" in the "Vexatious Coincidence" of Benito Cereno -- IMPLICATIONS ABOUT THE IMPLIED READER -- THINGS AND WHAT THEY ARE CALLED -- AT FIRST GLANCE: BENITO CERENO -- AT FIRST GLANCE: THE SAN DOMINICK -- THINGS TAKEN PERSONALLY -- CONSPIRACY -- DELANO'S MOTIVES -- THE READER'S MOTIVES -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter Four Literary Cloaks, Practical Jokes, and The Esophagus Hoax: Concealment, Conspiracy and the Contrivance of History in Twain -- TAKING HUMOR SERIOUSLY-AN INTRODUCTION -- THE PARTICULARS OF THE CASE -- SITUATING THE PARTICULARS OF THE CASE -- SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: DETECTION -- SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: HAPLESS HOAXES -- SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: EXTRA-TEXTUAL PERSECUTION -- SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: TWAIN'S READERSHIP -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ESOPHAGUS.

TWAIN'S HISTORY OF PRACTICAL JOKES (AND HIS PRACTICAL JOKE OF HISTORY) -- HANK AND JOAN AND MARK -- ABANDONING THE ESOPHAGUS -- CLOSING THOUGHTS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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