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  • “A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon

    Author(s):
    Martin Paul Eve (see profile) , Mark Sussman
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    American history, American literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    20th Century Literature, contemporary fiction, thomas pynchon
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6HW3W
    Abstract:
    The June 1888 issue of the Phonographic World magazine presented John Pynchon, an ancestor of Thomas, as “The First American Shorthand Reporter”. While most biographical criticism to date of Thomas Pynchon has focused on the cameo appearance of a thinly veiled William Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow, we here set out further historical information on John alongside an appraisal of shorthand in the novels of Thomas.
    Metadata:
    xml
    Published as:
    Journal Article
    Pub. DOI:
    10.16995/orbit.204
    Publisher:
    Open Library of Humanities
    Journal:
    Orbit: A Journal of American Literature
    Volume:
    4
    Issue:
    2
    Start Page:
    1
    End Page:
    7
    Status:
    Published
    License:
    Attribution

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