itself to the question of economic and political force that Norris explores in the novel” (202). Further, this “cartograph suggests that the ‘County Described in ‘The Octopus’ is governed, even constituted, by a complex combination of forces – natural economic, political, technological, and proprietary” (203). The stakes of such a project, then, are to present a “complex, layered geography that not only illustrates interconnected systems of force, but also offers a vision of citizenship in the modern…
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