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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 pointed caricature of American life, Modern Chivalry will be of great value to all interested in American history and literature.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary reference works

• Full title: Modern Chivalry
• Author: Hugh Henry Brackenridge
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780742534032
• ISBN: 0742534030
• ID: 04905524
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 484 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 228 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. October 2003

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