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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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Hanover, New Hampshire :
Dartmouth College Press,
[2013]
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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.