Description
Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments, Introduction, The Gothic Logic of Paranoia, Chapter 1. Wieland’s Transformations: The Problem of Closure in the “Opening” American Novel, Chapter 2. “Hidden Significance”: The Marble Faun as Post Script to Seven Gables, Chapter 3. Rhetorical Razors: “Lurking Significance” in the “Vexatious Coincidence” of Benito Cereno, Chapter 4. Literary Cloaks, Practical Jokes, and the Esophagus Hoax: Concealment, Conspiracy, and the Contrivance of History in Twain, Notes, Bibliography, Index
