Shock and awe : American exceptionalism and the imperatives of the spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spanos, William V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2013]
Series:Re-mapping the transnational.
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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.