Introduction: Calibrating Clio -- Prospero’s apprenticeship: slow learner -- History and myth: Pynchon’s V -- Streben nach dem unendlichen: Germany and German culture in Pynchon’s early work -- Pynchon and the sixties: the California novels -- The luddite vision: Mason & Dixon -- Pynchon, genealogy, history: Against the day -- The historiographer historicized: Pynchon and literary history.
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