Shock and Awe American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spanos, William V. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press 2013.
Series:Re-mapping the transnational.
Subjects:
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Table of Contents:
  • American exceptionalism: a genealogy
  • A Connecticut Yankee as American Jeremiad: the historical context
  • Americanist criticism of A Connecticut Yankee: a critical history
  • Staging the spectacle: a contrapuntal reading of A Connecticut Yankee
  • A Connecticut Yankee and America's "war on terror": thinking the spectacle.