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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

Title: 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.
Author: Spanos, William V.
Publication: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2013]

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Description

xviii, 222 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

Uniform Title

Re-mapping the transnational.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 13-8734

ISBN

9781611684612 (cloth : alk. paper)
1611684617 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611684629 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1611684625 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781611684636 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013009697

OCLC

840463235

Author

Spanos, William V.

Title

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.

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

Re-mapping the transnational.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-8734

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