Reading the Text That Isnt There Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel
| Author/creator | Davis, Mike Lee Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge Ipswich : Ebsco Publishing [Distributor] |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Series | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Outstanding Dissertations Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation Although paranoia is prominent in the work of many celebrated twentieth-century American writers, its literary influence is evident from the beginning of American literature. Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists (Brockden Brown, Hawthorne, Melville and Twain), Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another, establishing a trajectory according to which paranoia is gradually shifted from within the consciousness of characters in fictive worlds to the world of the flesh-and-blood readers. Placing these novelists' work alongside behavioural and cultural patterns in society, this book offers an explanation for the attractiveness of paranoid thinking to the American readership. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780203006054 |
| ISBN | 0203006054 (E-Book) Active Record |
| Stock number | 00081154 |
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