Scott McClintock is an associate professor of
English and comparative literature at National University in San
Bernardino. His research interests include literatures of the
Americas, anti-terror discourse critique, the Indian novel in
English, and Cold War cultural studies. He has published on Salman
Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Franz Kafka, Laureano Alban, and the culture
of the Cold War. He lives in Big Bear City, California, USA.
John Miller is a professor of English at National
University in Costa Mesa, USA. His scholarly publications have
dealt with a variety of topics, from the early modern prose of
Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, and Izaak Walton to the fiction of J.
R. R. Tolkien and Thomas Pynchon, as well as the science fiction
short story, hyperfiction and role playing games, and online
pedagogy. He lives in Irvine, California, USA.
"Impressively various and wide-ranging in their scholarship, the
chapters of this volume make a compelling case for grouping
Pynchon's three shortest novels together and examining them jointly
as a kind of accidental trilogy. Especially welcome is the
rehabilitation of the underrated novels Vineland and Inherent Vice,
which deserve, and richly repay, close attention of the kind that
these essays devote to them. Kudos to McClintock and Miller for
assembling this uniquely valuable volume."--Brian McHale, author,
Postmodernist Fiction
"McClintock and Miller's terrific collection of essays on Pynchon's
California reveals just how much is still to be gained from
sustained attention to a feature that became really salient only
with the publication of Inherent Vice in 2009. To be sure, critics
have long been aware of the special place California occupies in
the Pynchon Imaginary, but only now can we see the extent to which
all of the fiction is illuminated by scrutiny of the important
thematic frame provided by this particular setting."--David Cowart,
author, Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History
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