jacobites

[Brian D. McCary]

Not having much in the way of English Literary History referances around here,
(or a copy of CL49), I'm gonna dump this one out to the list.  It occured to
me that James's Town, on St. Hellena, is used as a hook into the Jacobites.  
I believe that somewhere in Chap 11, it is even refered to as "that Jacobite 
town".  As I mentioned in the notes, the Jacobites were supporters of the 
Stuart pretenders to the throne.  Is there a connection between these Jacobites 
and the Jacobean playwrites, including Warfinger in CL49?  If so, funny that they
should show up in the background of two stories thirty years apart.  Is Pynchon
thinking of them or using them as examples of the elect fighting between themselves,
those who cause the machinations which grind the preterite?  Someone out there
want to take a stab at this?  Perhaps *you*?

Brian McCary