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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524668503321

Autore

Spanos William V

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, New Hampshire : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-61168-462-5

1-61168-463-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies

Disciplina

813/.4

Soggetti

National characteristics, American, in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.