The Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century - Travel to the Past in Science Fiction - Hardback - 1990

"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.
Year of publication: 1990
Pagination: 216 pages, black & white illustrations
Format: Hardback
Serie: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy"