Prolegomena to Mason & Dixon

[Dave Monroe]

A quick question for everyone here.  Essential reading
for Mason & Dixon?  So far ...

Clerc, Charles.  Mason & Dixon & Pynchon.
   Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.

Horvath, Brooke and Irving Malin, eds.
   Pynchon and Mason & Dixon.  Newark, DE:
   U of Delaware P, 2000.

Siegel, Mark.  "Pynchon's Legal Landscape:
   Justice in Mason & Dixon."  Oklahoma
   City University Law Review Vol. 2, No. 3
   (1999): 439-48.

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/siegel24.htm

Clerc includes The Journal of Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon, 1763-1768.  And, for background ...

Brewer, John.  The Pleasures of the Imagination:
   English Culture in the Eighteenth Century.
   New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1997.
   Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000.

Danson, Edwin.  Drawing the Line: How Mason
   and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in
   America.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Sobel, Dava.  Longitude: The True Story of a
   Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific
   Problem of His Time.  New York: Penguin, 1996.

Plus what little else I might have around the house on
the period, what little I know of the history,
culture, science, literature, et al. of the time. 
This is going to be a genuine research project for me,
not to mention my first time rereading M&D, so ...

And, Sam, just in case it's not clear yet, I've pretty
much gotten that first half of Ch. 6 of TCOL49 off my
chest (and maybe my back).  Looking forward to
discussing that all-important final pass over the next
week or so.  Thanks, everybody, do hope someone finds
something of use somehwere down the line, at least ...


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