Mason & Dixon
novel by Pynchon
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American literature
- In American literature: Multicultural writing
…with sprawling, picaresque historical novels: Mason & Dixon (1997), about two famous 18th-century surveyors who explored and mapped the American colonies, and Against the Day (2006), set at the turn of the 20th century.
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discussed in biography
- In Thomas Pynchon: Vineland, Inherent Vice, and other novels
In Mason & Dixon (1997), set in the 18th century, Pynchon took the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as his subject, and Against the Day (2006) moves from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 through World War I. Inherent Vice (2009), Pynchon’s rambling take…
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