MDDM Bibliography

Thu Sep 26 16:56:54 CDT 2002

'After the Rainbow'

Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive author whose last book was _Gravity's
Rainbow_ in 1973, has two novels in the works. One is said to be a
science-fiction thriller inspired by Pynchon's passion for "Mothra" and
other Japanese horror movies. The other book involves the Mason-Dixon line,
and Pynchon is now in England looking into the lives of Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon, the British surveyors who established the Pennsylvania-
Maryland boundary in the eighteenth century. As part of his previous
research, Pynchon walked the 233-mile length of the Mason-Dixon line.

Bill Roeder
_Newsweek_, August 7, 1978, p. 17.

PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE (with Reading Group Guide)

http://216.247.214.252/pynchon/index.html

TIM WARE'S WEB GUIDE

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/index.html

PETER SCHMIDT'S WEB GUIDE

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/engl52b/m-d1.html

"FIELD NOTES"

http://www.weirdplots.com/quills/mason01.html#drawing02

CRITICAL WORKS

Clerc, Charles. _Mason & Dixon & Pynchon_. Lanham: University Press of
America, 2000.

Horvath, Brooke and Irving Malin (eds). _Pynchon and 'Mason & Dixon'_.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000.

http://www.english.udel.edu/udpress/Horvath.html

Tanner, Tony.  '"The Rubbish-Tip for Subjunctive Hopes": Thomas Pynchon's
_Mason & Dixon_'. In _The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson
to DeLillo_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 222-38.

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

Online essays by Peter Schmidt, Mark Siegel, Bill Millard, Norman Fischer,
David W. Lawrence, Carmen Perez-Llantada Auria, Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds,
Hanjo Berressem, Robert L. McLaughlin and Justin Scott Coe:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/mason.html

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

http://www.columbia.edu/~wbm1/snovian.html

http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/fischer24.htm

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/lawrence24.htm

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/perez24.htm

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

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.501/11.3berressem_prs.txt

http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/mclaughlin24.htm

http://www.reconstruction.ws/021/Haunting.htm

RECOMMENDED REVIEWS

Coraghessan Boyle, T. 'The Great Divide', _New York Times Book Review_, May
18, 1997, p. 9:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/970518.18boylet.html?searchpv=
book-site 

Hedgecock, Andrew. _The Edge_, 1996:

http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/masonanddixon.htm

Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall. 'Making the Rounds of History'. _Threads_:

http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/r8hinds.htm

Keough, Peter. 'Roman à cleft: Thomas Pynchon's _Mason & Dixon_ Surveys the
Making of America'. _Boston Phoenix_, May 1997:

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/books/reviews/05-97/pynchon.html

Livingstone, David B. 'Mystery Train'. _Spike Magazine_, September 1997:

http://www.spikemagazine.com/0997pync.htm

Mattessich, Stefan. 'Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces', 1997:

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.997/review-5.997

McConnell, Frank. 'Good and Plenty'. _Commonweal_ August 15, 1997:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezmcconnell.htm

McLemee, Scott. 'Weird Morning in America'. _Salon_. April 25, 1997:

http://www.salon.com/april97/pynchon970425.html

Menand, Louis. 'Entropology'. _New York Review of Books_ 44.10, June 12,
1997, pp. 22-25:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezmenand.htm

Moody, Rick. 'Surveyors of the Enlightenment'. _Atlantic Monthly_ 280.1,
July 1997, pp. 106-110:

http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/pynchon.htm

Overbye, Dennis. 'Street Cred: Pynchon Toes the Line'. _Wired_, August 1997:

http://www.wired.com/news/topstories/0,1287,6177,00.html

Pelovitz, David. 'Linear Pynchon', _Enterzone_ 11, 1997:

http://ezone.org/ez/e11/articles/pelovitz/masondixon.html

Siegel, Mark. 'Review of Thomas Pynchon, _Mason & Dixon_.' _H-Net Reviews_,
August 1997:

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14776872015199

Skea, Ann. 'Mason & Dixon'. _Eclectica_ 2.5, Aug./Sep. 1998:

http://www.eclectica.org/v2n5/skea_mason_dixon.html

Weisenburger, Steven. 'Pynchon Surveys Troubled Land'. _Wall Street
Journal_, June 22, 1997:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezweisenburger.htm

Wiley, David. 'Back to the Future: Thomas Pynchon Revisits Yesterday's
America and Writes Tomorrow's Literature'. _A&E_, May 2, 1997:

http://www.mndaily.com/ae/Print/1997/19/cover.html

MORE REVIEWS AND WEBLINKS

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/md/mdindex.html

http://216.247.214.252/pynchon/md_reviews.htm

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/6.htm

http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_reviews.html

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

MAPPING THE LINE (Primary and Secondary Sources)

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc2200/sc2221/000017/000013/ht
ml/0000.html

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc2200/sc2221/000017/000014/ht
ml/0000.html

'Astronomical Observations made at Cavan, near Strabane, in the County of
Donegal, Ireland, by Appointment of the Royal Society, by Mr. Charles
Mason'. _Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society_ Vol. 60, Dec.
1770, pp. 454-96.

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=1&size=1&id=
pt.1770.x.x.60.x.454

http://www.ls.net/~newriver/md/masondixon.htm

http://www.theledger.com/americanimp/0531_delaware.html

http://famousamericans.net/charlesmason/

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/the_north_east/leisure/MEMORIES4.html

http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/usa/mas_dix.htm

http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa041999.htm?iam=dpile&terms=%2B%2
2Charles+Mason+and+Jeremiah+Dixon%22

http://www.gamber.net/gamber/mason-dx.htm

Burchard, Edward L., and Edward B. Matthews. 'Manuscripts and Publications
Relating to the Mason and Dixon Line and Other Lines in Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and the Virginias'. Report of the Resurvey of the
Maryland-Pennsylvania Boundary. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg
Publishing, 1909, pp. 205-403.

Cope, Thomas D. 'A Frame of Reference for Mason and Dixon'. Proceedings of
the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 19, 1945.

Cummings, Hubertis M. _The Mason and Dixon Line: Story for a Bicentenary
1763-1963_. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1963.

Danson, Edwin. _Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most
Famous Border in America_. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Danson, Edwin. 'The Work of Charles Mason and Jeremiah
Dixon'. _FIG XXII International Congress_, Washington
D.C., 2002.

http://www.ddl.org/figtree/pub/fig_2002/HS1/HS1_danson.pdf

Ecenbarger, William. _Walkin' the Line: A Journey from Past to Present along
the Mason-Dixon_. New York: M.Evans & Co., 2000.

Hollis, H.P. 'Jeremiah Dixon and His Brother'. _Journal of the British
Astronomical Association_ 44.8, 1934: pp. 294-9.

Latrobe, John H.B. _The History of Mason and Dixon's Line_. Philadelphia:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1855.

http://www.webincunabula.com/html/la/latrobe.htm

Lefever, Barbara Susan. _The Stargazers_. York, Pennsylvania: Printing
Express, 1986. (novel)

Mason, Charles.  "Observations for Proving the Going of Mr. Ellicott's Clock
at St. Helena." _Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society_ 52:2, Art.
86 (1762).

Mason, A Hughlett (ed.). _The Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon_.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1969.

Mathews, Edward Bennett. 'History of the Boundary Dispute between the
Baltimores and Penns Resulting in the Original Mason and Dixon Line.'
_Report on the Resurvey of the Maryland-Pennsylvania Boundary_. Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing, 1909.

Miers, Earl Schenck. _Border Romance: The Story of the Exploits of Charles
Mason and Jeremiah Dixon_. Newark, Delaware: Spiral Press, 1965.

Robinson, H.W. 'Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779): A Biographical Note',
_Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society_. 93.3, 1950: pp. 272-4.

Short, James. 'An Account of Mr. Mason's Paper, Concerning the Going of Mr.
Ellicott's Clock at St. Helena'. _Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society_ 52:2, Art. 87 (1762).

St. George, Judith. _Mason and Dixon's Line of Fire_. Putnam, 1991.

Veech, James. _Mason and Dixon's Line: A History_, 1857.

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