Article: Pynchon and "Mason & Dixon".(Review)

Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin, eds. Pynchon and "Mason & Dixon." Univ. of Delaware Press, 2000. 228 pp. $39.50.

Eleven essays (and one generous bibliography on various critical responses by Clifford Mead) are here gathered to elucidate, clarify, and analyze Mr. Pynchon's long fifth novel, the reveries in an eighteenth-century style of Rev'd Wicks Cherrycoke, an aging British parson who twenty years before had accompanied Mason and Dixon hacking their east-west line to mark the separation of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Several wonderfully elaborated essays: Arthur Saltzman's well-reasoned "Cranks of Ev'ry Radius," which documents the optimistic linearity of the ...

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