Sussman, Mark and Eve, Martin Paul (2016) “A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon. Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 4 (2), pp. 1-7. ISSN 2398-6786.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.204
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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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Contemporary Literature, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Martin Eve |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2016 07:39 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:38 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/16041 |
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