Comments on: Connecticut Yankee, Twain’s Phantom Menace? http://projects.pomona.edu/english83f07/2007/11/15/connecticut-yankee-twains-phantom-menace/ The Lives and Deaths of King Arthur Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:30:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: sean http://projects.pomona.edu/english83f07/2007/11/15/connecticut-yankee-twains-phantom-menace/comment-page-1/#comment-112 sean Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:47:46 +0000 http://projects.pomona.edu/english83f07/2007/11/15/connecticut-yankee-twains-phantom-menace/#comment-112 I don't know if it's on par with HF, or TS, but it's not without interest, humor, and a very dark kind of misanthropy. I don't see it as an attempt to cash in on anything; how crowd pleasing an effort could this be? Rather, I see it as a riposte to the rampant 19th C. Arthurianism that idealized Arthur, and the middle ages as a stable site of national origin, identity, etc. I don’t know if it’s on par with HF, or TS, but it’s not without interest, humor, and a very dark kind of misanthropy. I don’t see it as an attempt to cash in on anything; how crowd pleasing an effort could this be? Rather, I see it as a riposte to the rampant 19th C. Arthurianism that idealized Arthur, and the middle ages as a stable site of national origin, identity, etc.

]]> By: Mary http://projects.pomona.edu/english83f07/2007/11/15/connecticut-yankee-twains-phantom-menace/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Mary Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:24:10 +0000 http://projects.pomona.edu/english83f07/2007/11/15/connecticut-yankee-twains-phantom-menace/#comment-108 I don't disagree, because it is a little underwhelming for a work by Mark Twain. However, I think that it's more trying to cash in on the appeal of Arthuriana more than Mark Twain's name. It could be a mixture of both, though, I suppose. Not the most awe-inspiring comment in the world, but that's all I have. I don’t disagree, because it is a little underwhelming for a work by Mark Twain. However, I think that it’s more trying to cash in on the appeal of Arthuriana more than Mark Twain’s name. It could be a mixture of both, though, I suppose.

Not the most awe-inspiring comment in the world, but that’s all I have.

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