Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Reagan, His Servant - Couverture souple

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0742534030 ISBN 13 : 9780742534032

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

Like Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Fielding's Tom Jones, Modern Chivalry is a tale of adventuring, episodic and exciting. Despite the author's European inspirations, it is a distinctively American book, not just because of its homespun, native characters and slapstick humor, but also because it is a narrative of journeying and questing. As it follows Captain Farrago and his sidekick on their travels, the book's premise becomes clear-that democracy as practiced in America is valuable and worthy, but that it is subject to malfunctions when tinkered with by unfit men.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) was a self made man, a very model of the versitile early American-lawyer, politician, editor, teacher, essayist, preacher, and novelist. Modern Chivalry is his best known work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742534030
• ISBN 13: 9780742534032
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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