Table of Contents

Introduction: The Times of Mason & Dixon - Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
"The Space that may not be seen": The Form of Historicity in Mason & Dixon - Mitchum Huehls
The Sweetness of Immorality: Mason & Dixon and the American Sins of Consumption - Brian Thill
Consumption on the Frontier: Food and Sacrament in Mason & Dixon - Colin A. Clarke
"America was the only place...": American Exceptionalism and the Geographic Politics of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - Pedro Garcia-Caro
Postmodernism at Sea: The Quest for Longitude in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day BeforeBefore - Dennis M. Lensing
Haunting and Hunting: Bodily Resurrection and the Occupation of History in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - Justin M. Scott Coe
"Our Madmen, our Paranoid": Enlightened Communities and the Mental State in Mason & Dixon - Ian D. Copestake
General Wolfe and the Weavers: Re-envisioning History in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - Frank Palmeri

Reviews

Mason & Dixon ...provides the greatest challenge to its critics. This excellent collection of essays is intended to reflect 'the complex linkages' between the eighteenth century and the contemporary, the postmodern and the 'other than postmodern'.... The collection succeeds in tackling the vexed relationship between the specific, historical 'moment' and the broader realm of historicity with which Pynchon's novel concerns itself. It seems his impressive work has finally got the scholarly text it deserves.
*JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES*