A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | The Reality of the Dream
In the following essay, Berkove contends that A Connecticut Yankee is “a successfully united novel of tragic vision—specifically a vision of universal damnation.”
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is centrally important to the effort to identify and chart a level of basic consistency in the life and works of Mark Twain. The novel should bring us much closer to the goal of establishing that there are particular ideas and values which are characteristic of Mark Twain, and that they exist in an unbroken chain from the formative years of his youth to the end of his life. However, the prevailing critical position on A Connecticut Yankee, that it fails because excessive autobiographical intrusions by Twain destroy its fictional...
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