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The Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century: Travel to the Past in Science Fiction
Bud Foote
The Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century: Travel to the Past in Science Fiction
Bud Foote
Focusing on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", this study details, both in Twain's work and in its science fiction successors, the roles played by the traveller to the past - nostalgic, tourist, imperialist, Oedipal hero and existential isolate.
216 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 20, 1990 |
ISBN13 | 9780313243271 |
Publishers | ABC-CLIO |
Pages | 216 |
Dimensions | 242 × 269 × 14 mm · 535 g |
Language | English |