A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Cox, James M., "The Ironic Stranger," in Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, Princeton University Press, 1966, pp. 222 – 46.

  Cox considers this novel's place in Twain's long career and finds it to be the point at which he started entering the final, worst stage of his writing life.

• Davis, Sara de Saussure, and Philip D. Beidler, eds, The Mythologizing of Mark Twain, University of Alabama Press, 1984.

  This book is a compilation of essays by and about Twain, charting the growth of his reputation.

• Michelson, Bruce, "The Quarrel with Romance," in Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self, University of Massachusetts Press, 1995, pp. 95 – 171.

  This long chapter from Michelson's excellent examination of Twain's career looks at the American Romantic tradition and Twain's relationship to it.

• Robinson, Douglas, "Revising the American Dream: A Connecticut Yankee," in Mark Twain, edited by Harold Bloom, Modern Critical Views series, Chelsea House Publishers, 1986, pp. 183 – 206.

  Robinson's analysis of the book is steeped with philosophy and complex literary theory.

• Snyder, Christopher, The World of King Arthur, Thames and Hudson, 2000.

  Snyder has assembled a richly-illustrated book filled with thousands of details about the time that Twayne was exploring.