Generic swept-away-to-a-magical-realm stories are as old as stories. It’s just another form of the Campbellian underworld.
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court is blatantly an audience-insert into another known genre so the rando protagonist can be a world-shaping force just by having common knowledge. He even gets there by getting smacked so hard he could die.
Nonsense, there’s loads of European stories with that kind of plot from the 17th century onwards.
Generic swept-away-to-a-magical-realm stories are as old as stories. It’s just another form of the Campbellian underworld.
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court is blatantly an audience-insert into another known genre so the rando protagonist can be a world-shaping force just by having common knowledge. He even gets there by getting smacked so hard he could die.