Description: New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past.
Review Quotes: Mason & Dixon ...provides the greatest challenge to its critics. This excellent collection of essays is intended to reflect 'the complex linkages' between the eighteenth century and the contemporary, the postmodern and the 'other than postmodern'.... The collection succeeds in tackling the vexed relationship between the specific, historical 'moment' and the broader realm of historicity with which Pynchon's novel concerns itself. It seems his impressive work has finally got the scholarly text it deserves.-- "JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES"