Essays on the contemporary American novelist's most recent work
Acknowledgments 9(2) Introduction 11(16) Brooke Horvath Foreshadowing the Text 27(16) Irving Malin Mason & Dixon in the Zone, or, A Brief Poetics of Pynchon-Space 43(20) Brian McHale ``Cranks of Evry Radius: Romancing the Line in Mason & Dixon 63(10) Arthur Saltzman Thomas Pynchon and the Fault Lines of America 73(11) Donald J. Greiner Mapping the Course of Empire in the New World 84(16) David Seed Dimming the Enlightenment: Thomas Pynchons Mason & Dixon 100(12) Victor Strandberg The Sound of One Man Mapping: Wicks Cherrycoke and the Eastern (Re)solution 112(20) Joseph Dewey Reading at the ``Crease of Credulity 132(11) Bernard Duyfhuizen Historical Documents Relating to Mason & Dixon 143(24) David Foreman Plucking the American Albatross: Pynchons Irrealism in Mason & Dixon 167(22) Jeff Baker Plot, Ideology, and Compassion in Mason & Dixon 189(14) Thomas H. Schaub Mason & Dixon Bibliography 203(10) Clifford S. Mead Works Cited 213(8) List of Contributors 221(2) Index 223
