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.
| ISBN: | 9780742534032 |
| Publication date: | 22nd October 2003 |
| Author: | Hugh Henry Brackenridge |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Masterworks of Literature |
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Literary reference works |