About this volume / James Plath
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of conspiracy / James Plath
Conspiracies and religion in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code / Tammie M. Kennedy
Corporations as villains in postwar conspiracy films / Rebecca Bell-Metereau
"The old man's laughter" : the conspiracy of American life in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / Matthew Shipe
Heroism and indeterminacy in Oliver Stone's JFK and Don DeLillo's Libra / Tim Engles
Conspiracy : not just a theory in contemporary young adult fiction / M. Katherine Grimes
Conspiracy in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Robert C. Evans
State conspiracies in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world / Thomas Horan
Conspiracy in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Robert C. Evans
Conspiracies of the flesh : disciplinary power and female embodiment in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Aisha Matthews
Who reads the reader? Surveilling the conspiracies in Watchmen / Sid Sondergard
Suspicion, conspiracy, and overinterpretation in Foucault's pendulum / Jessica Sciubba
Irrational, unimaginable (and perhaps unintelligible) horrors : super/natural conspirators in The shining / Peter J. Bailey
What evil lurks : James Bond's battles with S.P.E.C.T.R.E. / Erik Esckilsen
Oedipa Maas and the uses of conspiracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 / J. Kerry Grant
Additional works on conspiracies
Bibliography
About the editor
Contributors
Index.