A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

This edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court reprints the text of the first American edition, approved by Clemens and published by his own company.

Preface

ix

The Text of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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(452)

Contents of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

2

(2)

Author's Preface

4

(257)

Backgrounds and Sources

King Arthur

261

(1)

[The Total Eclipse]

262

(2)

Washington Irving

[The Ascetic Saints]

264

(2)

W. E. H. Lecky

[The King's Touch]

266

(2)

W. E. H. Lecky

[Financing the Mansion House]

268

(3)

W. E. H. Lecky

Composition and Publication

The Author and The Novel

271

(1)

The ``Tournament'' in A.D. 1870

271

(2)

Samuel L. Clemens

The Great Revolution in Pitcairn

273

(9)

Samuel L. Clemens

Legend of the ``Spectacular Ruin''

282

(2)

Samuel L. Clemens

The New Dynasty

284

(5)

Samuel L. Clemens

To Mrs. Jervis Langdon

289

(1)

Samuel L. Clemens

To Mrs. Cincinnatus A. Taft

290

(1)

Samuel L. Clemens

[Buying a Copy of Morte d'Arthur]

290

(1)

George Washington Cable

From Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals

291

(2)

Samuel L. Clemens

From the New York Sun and the New York Herald • [The 1886 Reading at Governor's Island]

293

(3)

Letters about A Connecticut Yankee

296

(8)

Samuel L. Clemens

From The Autobiography of Mark Twain

304

(1)

Samuel L. Clemens

[A Rejected Preface]

305

(2)

Samuel L. Clemens

The Dan Beard Illustrations

307

(1)

[Making the Illustration for A Connecticut Yankee

307

(2)

Daniel Carter Beard

[The Character of the Yankee]

309

(1)

Daniel Carter Beard

To Dan Beard

309

(1)

Samuel L. Clemens

To a Reader

310

(1)

Samuel L. Clemens

[Beard's Illustrations]

310

(3)

Henry Nash Smith

The English Edition

313

(1)

[Clemens, Chatto, and the English Edition]

313

(8)

Dennis Welland

Criticism

Early Views

321

(1)

[Nothing More Delicious]

321

(3)

Sylvester Baxter

[His Wonder-Story]

324

(4)

William Dean Howells

From the London Daily Telegraph • [King Arthur or Jay Gould?]

328

(3)

Mark Twain's New Book: A Satirical Attack on English Institutions

331

(3)

William T. Stead

From the Boston Literary World • [This Melancholy Product of the American Mind]

334

(2)

[He Has Not the Knowledge]

336

(1)

Andrew Lang

[The Yankee Animal]

336

(1)

Rudyard Kipling

[A Bull in the China-Shop of Ideas]

336

(1)

Charles Whibley

[His Literary Worst and Best]

337

(4)

Albert Bigelow Paine

Recent Criticism

[So Much Divine Comedy]

341

(1)

John B. Hoben

[The Composition of A Connecticut Yankee]

342

(19)

Howard G. Baetzhold

Revision and Intention in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee

361

(7)

James D. Williams

The Use of History in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee

368

(15)

James D. Williams

The Volcano

383

(7)

Kenneth S. Lynn

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: The Machinery of Self-Preservation

390

(11)

James M. Cox

Uncle Sam

401

(8)

Louis J. Budd

The Ideas in a Dream

409

(8)

Henry Nash Smith

Epoch-Eclipse and Apocalypse: Special ``Effects'' in A Connecticut Yankee

417

(17)

David Ketterer

The Meaning of A Connecticut Yankee

434

(19)

Everett Carter

Selected Bibliography

453

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