Print version: Smith, Shawn. Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon. New York : Routledge, 2005 viii, 248 pages ; 24 cm. Studies in major literary authors ISBN 9780415975438
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-239) and index
Pynchon and history: an overview -- Truth and falsity don’t apply: V. and the historiographic method -- Gravity’s Rainbow: wrecking the elegant rooms of history -- Simulated history: Vineland and postmodern America -- Westward the course of empire: Mason & Dixon and the rewriting of the American romance.