Reading the Text That Isn't There: Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Literary Criticism and Culturaltheory)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Introduction......Page 7
A SURVEY OF TERMS......Page 9
MORE RATIONAL THAN REASON ITSELF......Page 13
THE ARCHITECTONICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: GOTHIC STRUCTURES AND PANOPTICONS......Page 15
OTHER ORDERS BEHIND THE VISIBLE......Page 19
THE REVISIONARY TRAJECTORY......Page 21
WHERE TO BEGIN......Page 24
V-LAND, WE-LAND, VY-LAND, WHY-LAND?......Page 25
A MATTER OF CONTEXT......Page 27
UNDERWRITING/OVERREADING......Page 29
IS THERE SUCH A THING AS HYSTERICAL SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION?......Page 31
SHOULD WE BELIEVE HER (EVEN IF SHE ASKS US NOT TO)?......Page 35
TRIAL (& TRIAL) & ERROR (& ERROR & TRIAL)......Page 36
LOOSE ENDS OF A MANGLED TALE......Page 39
STRUCTURAL LITERARY NATIONALISM......Page 45
HAWTHORNE REVISING HAWTHORNE......Page 48
A COMMON THREAD......Page 49
A CONSPIRACY OF IMITATIONS......Page 50
IMITATION OF ROMANCE......Page 57
IMPLICATIONS OF IMITATION......Page 60
RECONSIDERING GABLES AS A MURDER MYSTERY......Page 65
IMITATION OF CONSPIRACY......Page 68
CONCLUSIONS......Page 71
IMPLICATIONS ABOUT THE IMPLIED READER......Page 72
THINGS AND WHAT THEY ARE CALLED......Page 73
AT FIRST GLANCE: BENITO CERENO......Page 74
AT FIRST GLANCE: THE SAN DOMINICK......Page 76
THINGS TAKEN PERSONALLY......Page 80
CONSPIRACY......Page 85
DELANO’S MOTIVES......Page 90
THE READER’S MOTIVES......Page 92
CONCLUSIONS......Page 96
TAKING HUMOR SERIOUSLY—AN INTRODUCTION......Page 98
THE PARTICULARS OF THE CASE......Page 100
SITUATING THE PARTICULARS OF THE CASE......Page 102
SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: DETECTION......Page 107
SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: HAPLESS HOAXES......Page 108
SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: EXTRA-TEXTUAL PERSECUTION......Page 113
SCRUTINIZING THE ESOPHAGUS: TWAIN’S READERSHIP......Page 116
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ESOPHAGUS......Page 118
TWAIN’S HISTORY OF PRACTICAL JOKES (AND HIS PRACTICAL JOKE OF HISTORY)......Page 121
HANK AND JOAN AND MARK......Page 125
ABANDONING THE ESOPHAGUS......Page 131
CLOSING THOUGHTS......Page 133
Notes......Page 136
Bibliography......Page 167
Index......Page 173