Reading the Text That Isn't There

Reading the Text That Isn't There

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Davis, Mike
Taylor and Francis
EAN: 9780203006054
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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.
EAN 9780203006054
ISBN 0203006054
Binding Ebook
Publisher Taylor and Francis
Publication date November 1, 2004
Pages 240
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Davis, Mike
Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Outstanding Dissertations