A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social thought. The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versusdemocracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years.In his introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how A Conne…
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Weitere Autoren: Inge, M. Thomas (Hrsg.) / Beard, Daniel Carter (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160607-6
- EAN: 9780191606076
- Produktnummer: 13995928
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'417 KB
- Abbildungen: line drawings
Über den Autor
M. Thomas Inge is Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of the Humanities at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. He has received awards from the American Humor Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle for his contribution to the study of American humour and Mark Twain.
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