Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index
"The space that may not be seen" : the form of historicity in Mason & Dixon / Mitchum Huehls -- The sweetness of immorality : Mason & Dixon and the American sins of consumption / Brian Thill -- Consumption on the frontier : food and sacrament in Mason & Dixon / Colin A. Clarke -- "America was the only place--" : American exceptionalism and the geographic politics of Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon / Pedro Garcia-Caro -- Postmodernism at sea : the quest for longitude in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon and Umberto Eco’s The island of the day before / Dennis M. Lensing -- Haunting and hunting : bodily resurrection and the occupation of history in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon / Justin M. Scott Coe -- "Our madmen, our paranoid" : enlightened communities and the mental state in Mason & Dixon / Ian D. Copestake -- General Wolfe and the weavers : re-envisioning history in Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon / Frank Palmeri.