FW: Pynchon : A "PATCH OF ENGLAND, AT A THREE-THOUSAND-MILE OFF-SET"? REPRESENTING AMERICA IN MASON & DIXON

[Erik T. Burns]

foax, this abstract turned up in my inbox today, unfortunately don't have
access to the rest. may be of interest to those with liberry access.
etb


------------------------------------------------------------------------
A "PATCH OF ENGLAND, AT A THREE-THOUSAND-MILE OFF-SET"? REPRESENTING AMERICA
IN MASON & DIXON
Olster, Stacey
86 Words
01 July 2004
Modern Fiction Studies
283
Volume 50; Issue 2; ISSN: 00267724
English
Copyright (c) 2004 Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All
rights reserved.

Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon ends with the death of Charles Mason in 1786
and the decision of his two eldest children to stay in Philadelphia and "be
Americans." As to what constitutes that nationality, however, Pychon remains
silent, writes Olster. Here, she discusses the literary representation of
America in relation to the colonial England in Pynchon's novel.


Copyright Johns Hopkins University Press Summer 2004