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Chapter 7 - Conclusion

Too Late?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2023

Tore Rye Andersen
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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Summary

Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene has three interrelated agendas: (1) It establishes Thomas Pynchon’s three longest novels – Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day – as an ambitious, world-historical trilogy about the emergence and global spread of European modernity and thus presents a groundbreaking new understanding of one of the most important contemporary novelists. (2) On the basis of the analysis of the trilogy’s profound engagement with global history, it presents an elaborate discussion of Pynchon’s historical methods, which refines our understanding of Pynchon as an author of historical fiction and challenges prevalent notions of his relation to literary postmodernism. (3) It charts Pynchon’s early anticipation of anthropocenic and planetary ideas, including their close connection to modernity’s and globalization’s demand for constant growth. In so doing, it constitutes an important corrective to other recent studies of literature and the Anthropocene, showing how literary fiction is not merely a belated reflection of scientific debates about the Anthropocene, but has taken an early and active part in establishing the contours of the current discussions.

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Planetary Pynchon
History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene
, pp. 192 - 194
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Conclusion
  • Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book: Planetary Pynchon
  • Online publication: 24 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009377607.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book: Planetary Pynchon
  • Online publication: 24 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009377607.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book: Planetary Pynchon
  • Online publication: 24 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009377607.008
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