Table of Contents:
  • Late imperial romance: the politics of re-enchantment
  • Mid-century romances
  • Of whom the world was not worthy: Joan Didion's late imperial romances
  • The glamour of ruin: Robert Stone's late imperial romances
  • Systems and secrets: Don DeLillo's postmodern thrillers
  • Resisting romances: Pynchon's V. and Gravity's rainbow.