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

Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of the early twenty-first century, the author offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, providing an assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American i...

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Main Author: Spanos, William V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.