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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.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2013]
Series:Re-mapping the transnational.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910. > Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.