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

Name: Reading the Text That Isn't There:Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
ISBN: 9780203006054

doi:10.4324/9780203006054

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ABSTRACT

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.

Reading the Text That Isn't There

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |17 pages

Introduction The Gothic Logic of Paranoia

chapter |24 pages

Wieland 's Transformations: The Problem of Closure in the “Opening” American Novel

chapter |24 pages

“Hidden Significance”: The Marble Faun as Post Script to Seven Gables

chapter |26 pages

Rhetorical Razors: “Lurking Significance” in the “Vexatious Coincidence” of Benito Cereno

chapter |38 pages

Literary Cloaks, Practical Jokes, and The Esophagus Hoax: Concealment, Conspiracy and the Contrivance of History in Twain