[Dave Monroe]

See also, e.g., ...

Tanner, Tony.  "'The Rubbish-Tip for Subjunctive
   Hopes': Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon."
   The American Mystery: American Literature from
   Emerson to DeLillo.  New York: Cambridge UP,
   2002.  222-38.

http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521783747

Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall.  "Sari, Sorry, and the
   Vortex of History: Calendar Reform, Anachronism,
   and Language Change in Mason & Dixon," American
   Literary History, Vol. 12, Nos. 1 & 2
   (Spring/Summer 2000): 187-215. 

http://www3.oup.co.uk/alhist/hdb/Volume_12/Issue_01/

http://www3.oup.co.uk/alhist/hdb/Volume_12/Issue_01/120187.sgm.abs.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history/v012/12.1hinds.html

And see as well ...

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=mas-264

--- Robert Conrad Klein <rklein at fas.harvard.edu>
wrote:
> I'm doing my undergraduate thesis on M&D, and I'm
> just starting to cull some sources from the mass of
> criticism out there. What are some good places to
> start (besides anthologies of articles about M&D)?

But that Horvath & Malin anthology's pretty decent,
and the LeClerc book serves as a useful
outline/prolegomena as well ...

> What books of general theory should I check out? Is
> Frederic Jameson a good starting point?

And, just out of curiosity, what in particular brings
Jameson to mind?  Just so's I can see where yr coming
from, where you might want to go ...

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