Mason and Dixon and Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

By the way, I just knocked off ...

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

Not to be confused with ...

Horvath, Brooke and Irving Malin, eds.
   Pynchon and Mason and Dixon.  Newark, DE:
   U of Delaware P, 2001.

Which I've only just browsed.  One can only imagine
the legal wrangling over those titles ... but a couple
of comments.  First off, almost half of Clerc's book
is taken up with the journal of Mason and Dixon.  
Which I suppose is not a bad thing, convenient for the
conscientious researcher, at least.  Nothing
mindblowing amongst Clerc's notes (and that's pretty
much what they are), but it does again seem pretty
useful basic nuts 'n' bolts research.  What's fact,
what's fiction, how either gets used as the other, and
so forth.  More a prolegomena to a future study of M&D
than a full-(or even partially-)blown study itself,
and not much, unfortunately, in the way of further
references (save a note regarding the Horvat and Malin
anthology as forthcoming), but the first thing it does
is review several dozen newspaper, magazine, even web
reviews of the novel, so ...






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