It is a terrific work, although I seem to remember (what I perceived as)
flaws. Grabbed a PDF from Google Books Search, re-reading starting
yesterday. 

I wonder what Clara made of the Bing Crosby version? ;-) 

DDD

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Oggel/FS/VCU
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 1:24 PM
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Subject: Conn Yankee

Here's a piece from yesterday's Wash. Post that's perfectly timed for
our 
recent/on-going discussion on Conn Yankee:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR200909
0403802.html?referrer=emailarticle

Henry Nash Smith's book on CYankee, Mark Twain's Fable of Progress, left
a 
strong impression on me when I first read it, and it still does seem to 
hit the nail on the head.  Smith's book, one of (few) literary studies 
that endures, might be old but it's not out of date, like the Twain book

it examines.  Smith's book is sub-titled, Political and Economic Ideas
in 
A Connecticut Yankee.

Terry Oggel