Mason & Dixon
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Mason & Dixon is a postmodern historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that reimagines the lives and surveying expedition of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon with his signature blend of dense prose, dark humor, and metafictional playfulness.
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| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel → postmodern novel → |
| author |
Thomas Pynchon
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| awarded |
Salon Book Award
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| comparedToWork |
Gravity’s Rainbow
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V. → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| criticalReception |
generally acclaimed
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| firstEditionFormat |
hardcover
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| followedBy |
Against the Day
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| genre |
historical fiction
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metafiction → postmodern literature → |
| hasISBN |
0-8050-3754-0
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| hasNotableFeature |
alternate history elements
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archaic 18th-century-style prose → blend of historical fact and fiction → digressive narrative → interpolated tales → use of talking animals → |
| hasPageCount |
773
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| hasTheme |
construction of borders
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limits of Enlightenment rationality → storytelling and history → technology and power → |
| language |
English
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| literaryMovement |
postmodernism
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| mainCharacter |
Charles Mason
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Jeremiah Dixon → |
| narrativeStyle |
first-person frame narrative
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metafictional → nonlinear → |
| narrator |
Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke
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| partOfAuthorOeuvre |
Thomas Pynchon bibliography
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| precededBy |
Vineland
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| publicationDate |
1997
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| publisher |
Henry Holt and Company
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| setInTimePeriod |
18th century
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| subject |
American colonies
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British Empire → Mason–Dixon line → cartography → colonialism → friendship → science and rationalism → slavery → surveying → |
| tone |
darkly comic
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satirical → |
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Thomas Pynchon
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notableWork |
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Against the Day
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precededBy |