Reading the Text That Isn't There

Name: Reading the Text That Isn't There
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

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. > 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. > Acknowledgments, Introduction, The Gothic Logic of Paranoia, Chapter 1. Wieland\u2019s Transformations: The Problem of Closure in the \u201COpening\u201D American Novel, Chapter 2. \u201CHidden Significance\u201D: The Marble Faun as Post Script to Seven Gables, Chapter 3. Rhetorical Razors: \u201CLurking Significance\u201D in the \u201CVexatious Coincidence\u201D of Benito Cereno, Chapter 4. Literary Cloaks, Practical Jokes, and the Esophagus Hoax: Concealment, Conspiracy, and the Contrivance of History in Twain, Notes, Bibliography, Index > \nMike Davis earned his Ph.D. in 2002 from Princeton University, where y