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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.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.16995/orbit.204
- Publisher:
- Open Library of Humanities
- Pub. Date:
- 2016-9-9
- Journal:
- Orbit: A Journal of American Literature
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 2
- Page Range:
- 1 - 7
- ISSN:
- 2398-6786
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- Attribution
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