A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Norton Critical Editions)

by Twain, Mark; Ensor, Allison R.

• ISBN13: 9780393951370
• ISBN10: 0393951375
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-03-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Text of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	1	(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