Mark Twain's ridiculing of chivalry in his story A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is considered as specifically targeting whose books?
"attack on [its] the hereditary and aristocratic institutions"". The book pokes fun at contemporary society, but the main thrust is a satire of romanticized ideas of chivalry, and of the idealization of the Middle Ages common in the novels of Sir Walter Scott and other 19th-century literature. Twain had a particular dislike for Scott, blaming his kind of romanticizing of battle for the southern states' deciding to fight the American Civil War. He writes in ""Life on the Mississippi"": For example, the book portrays the medieval people as being very gullible, as when Merlin makes a ""veil of invisibility"" which,"
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is"
"series.) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he"
"He goes on to coin the term ""Sir Walter Scott disease"", which he blames for the South's lack of advancement. Twain also targeted Scott in ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", where he names a sinking boat the ""Walter Scott"" (1884); and, in ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1889), the main character repeatedly utters ""great Scott"" as an oath; by the end of the book, however, he has become absorbed in the world of knights in armor, reflecting Twain's ambivalence on the topic. The idyllic Cape Cod retreat of suffragists Verena Tarrant and Olive Chancellor in Henry James' ""The Bostonians"""
"employed the word in a neutral sense; the ""Pennamite–Yankee War,"" for example, was a series of clashes in 1769 over land titles in Pennsylvania between ""Yankee"" settlers from Connecticut and ""Pennamite"" settlers from Pennsylvania. The meaning of ""Yankee"" has varied over time. In the 18th century, it referred to residents of New England descended from the original English settlers of the region. Mark Twain used the word in this sense the following century in his novel ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", published in 1889. As early as the 1770s, British people applied the term to any person from"
"a brave man before the Civil War to confess he had read the ""Age of Reason""...I read it first when I was a cub pilot, read it with fear and hesitation, but marveling at its fearlessness and wonderful power."" Paine's criticisms of the church, the monarchy, and the aristocracy appear most clearly in Twain's ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1889). Paine's text is still published today, one of the few eighteenth-century religious texts to be widely available. Its message still resonates, evidenced by Christopher Hitchens's statement that ""if the rights of man are to be upheld in a"
"original series but not featuring the main character Conrad: The Conrad Stargard books belong to the subgenre started by Mark Twain's classic ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", in which a modern person goes back in time and anachronistically introduces various modern technical innovations and social institutions centuries sooner than happened in our history. The Stargard books differ significantly from Twain's concept in having a diametrically opposite role for the Catholic Church. The staunchly freethinking Twain assigned to the Medieval Church the role of strongly opposing his protagonist's innovations and doing all in its power to undo them; on"
"lurid tales, always involving heterosexual contacts of adults—priests and nuns with dead babies buried in the basement. Anti-Catholicism reached a peak in the mid nineteenth century when Protestant leaders became alarmed by the heavy influx of Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Germany. Some believed that the Catholic Church was the Whore of Babylon in the Book of Revelation. In his best-selling book of fiction, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (1889), author Mark Twain indicates his hostility to the Catholic Church. He admitted that he had ""...been educated to enmity toward everything that is Catholic."" In the 1830s and"
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 film) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1921 American silent film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"". The film was produced by the Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox) and directed by Emmett J. Flynn based on a screenplay by Bernard McConville. It is notable as the first film adaptation of Twain's novel and as the first film about time travel to the past. The film stars Harry Myers as the titular Yankee Martin Cavendish. After reading Twain's novel, Cavendish dreams"
"today. Its boisterous, extravagant humor made Clark's work highly popular in England for many years, and some of his work was initially published there. ""Out of the Hurly Burly"" was the first book illustrated by comics pioneer A. B. Frost, who would also illustrate other books by Clark. Some of the pieces in Clark/Adeler's books hold up quite well today. A subject of much contention was Clark's claim that Mark Twain plagiarized his 1880 novelette ""Fortunate Island"" with ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", published in 1889. Twain actually wrote what he considered a rebuttal to the charge, only"
"the idea behind ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" in December 1884 and worked on it between 1885 and 1889. The principal part of the writing was done at Twain's summer home at Elmira, New York and was completed at Hartford, Connecticut. It was first published in England by Chatto & Windus under the title ""A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur"" in December 1889. Writer and critic William Dean Howells called it Twain's best work and ""an object-lesson in democracy"". The work was met with some indignation in Great Britain as it was perceived as ""a direct"
"that the famous Yankee ""twang"" survives mainly in the hill towns of interior New England, though it is disappearing even there. Mark Twain's novel ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut, and Connecticut Air National Guard unit 103d Airlift Wing is nicknamed ""The Flying Yankees."" The shortened form ""Yank"" is used as a derogatory, pejorative, playful, or colloquial term for Americans in Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, and New Zealand. Depending on the country, ""Yankee"" may be considered mildly derogatory. In Cockney rhyming slang, an American is a ""Septic"""
"""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1889), where the knights of England attack the protagonist en masse and fall to him. It is a battle between modern American technology and old English ways. The narrative of the film never explains the arrival of Bugs in this time period. He is simply there. Yet his American ways have a calamitous effect, as did those of Hank Morgan in the original novel. Giving this short a dark side. The film also evokes images of the post-war era. For example, the pavilion of Bugs is a military surplus tent with the markings"
"of feudalism and the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Ball realizes that in the nineteenth century his hopes for an egalitarian society have yet to be fulfilled. A parallel can be drawn with the novel's close contemporary—""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1889) by Mark Twain. Unlike Twain's novel, which depicted early-Medieval England as a violent and chaotic Dark Age, Morris depicts the Middle Ages in a positive light, seeing it as a golden, if brief, period when peasants were prosperous and happy and guilds protected workers from exploitation. This positive portrayal of the Medieval period is a recurring"
"Tyler; or, The King and the Apprentice"" which appeared in weekly parts in ""The Young Englishman's Journal"" in 1867, and appears as a main character in William Harrison Ainsworth's ""Merry England; or, Nobles and Serfs"" (1874). Wat Tyler is also mentioned in ""Redburn"" by Herman Melville and in ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" by Mark Twain. John Gower commented on him in Vox Clamantis: ""The jay's voice is wild and he has only learnt the art of speaking from the classes with whom the Latin poet is identified."" . Wat Tyler is the principal character in the historical"
"is one which was constructed by court nobility. The violence that is part of this chivalry is steeply contrasted by the fact that King Arthur's court is Christian and the initial beheading event takes place while celebrating Christmas. The violence of an act of beheading seems to be counterintuitive to chivalric and Christian ideals, and yet it is seen as part of knighthood. The question of politeness and chivalry is a main theme during Gawain's interactions with Bertilak's wife. He cannot accept her advances or else lose his honour, and yet he cannot utterly refuse her advances or else risk"
"actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician. He attempts to modernize the past in order to make people's lives better, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power. Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor. It"
"song, ""Placentero nos es trabajar"". During the American Civil War, veterans sang a song devoted to ""The Army Bean"" which used a tune derivative of ""The Sweet By-and-By"". Mark Twain made fun of the song's ubiquitous popularity, along with the demographic groups in which it became popular, in chapter 17 (""A Banquet"") of his 1889 satirical novel ""A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court"". The protagonist, Hank Morgan, a visitor from the future, attends a lavish court dinner given by Morgan Le Fay, King Arthur's sister, during which guests are regaled with music: In a gallery a band with cymbals,"
"Isabella Bird. American writers include Mark Twain aboard the ""Ajax"" as a travel journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle, and Herman Melville as a whaler. Twain's unfinished novel of Hawaii was incorporated into his A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, with King Arthur bearing striking similarities to Kamehameha V, the first reigning monarch Twain was to meet. The ""modernizing"" potential offered by the Connecticut Yankee from the future is a satire of the potentially negative Protestant Missionary influence on Hawaiian life. Melville's writing of the Pacific includes Typee and Omoo (considered factual travel accounts when published) and his Pacific"
"utilized by a number of science fiction and fantasy writers popularized at the end of the 19th century by Mark Twain's ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", having considerable influence on later writers. This is one of the main plot devices of time travel stories, the other being a time machine. The difference is that in time slip stories, the protagonist typically has no control and no understanding of the process (which is often never explained at all) and is either left marooned in a past time and must make the best of it, or is eventually returned by"
"and absurdities in others' writings. Some, like Asimov, felt de Camp's conscientiousness about facts limited the scope of his stories: de Camp was reluctant to use technological or scientific concepts (e.g., hyperspace or faster-than-light travel) if he did not think them possible. Thus, his response to Mark Twain's ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" was to write a similar time travel novel (""Lest Darkness Fall"") in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age. In like fashion, he reimagined"
"of medieval slavery. It is possible to see the book as an important transitional work for Twain, in that earlier, sunnier passages recall the frontier humor of his tall tales such as ""The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"", while the corrosive view of human behavior in the apocalyptic latter chapters is more akin to darker, later Twain works such as ""The Mysterious Stranger"" and ""Letters from the Earth"". George Hardy notes, ""The final scenes of 'Connecticut Yankee' depict a mass horse attempting to storm a position defended by wire and machine guns—and getting massacred, none reaching their objective. Deduct"
"visit. Mark Twain released "" King Leopold's Soliloquy "", which talked about the abuses and Leopold's denial. Twain wrote it from the perspective of Leopold. ""They burst out and call me 'the king with ten million murders on his soul Throughout the book, Twain portrays Leopold as guilty and evil. ""Well...no matter, I did beat the Yankees, anyway! There is comfort in that. [Reads with a mocking smile, the President's Order of Recognition of April 22, 1884]"". Twain's account presents the image of a disingenuous Leopold plotting and scheming to keep the truth from coming out. Leopold's agents countered with"
"following points: Twain draws parallels and analogies from the pretensions of modern religious figures and commentators on the nature of Satan. He compares the believers in Shakespeare to adherents of Arthur Orton and Mary Baker Eddy. The book has been described as ""one of his least well received and most misunderstood works"". Karen Lystra argues that the essay reveals satirical intentions that went beyond the Shakespeare—Bacon controversy of the time, although she admits that Twain appears to have been sincere in his beliefs concerning Shakespeare. Though it is commonly assumed to be nothing more than a stale and embarrassing rehash"
"Waterloo"" An explicit connection of Sir Walter Scott's name with the by-then familiar exclamation is found in a poem published 15 August 1871, on the centenary anniversary of Scott's birth: Mark Twain also uses the phrase to reference Sir Walter Scott and his writing. Twain's disdain for Scott is evident in ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1889), in which the main character repeatedly utters ""great Scott"" as an oath, and in ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), where he names a sinking boat the ""Walter Scott"". John William De Forest, in ""Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession to Loyalty"""
"of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, Twain was up to something more than flimsy literary criticism. He was using the debate over Shakespeare's real identity to satirize prejudice, intolerance, and self-importance—in himself as well as others... But after his passionate diatribe against the ""Stratfordolators"" and his vigorous support of the Baconians, he cheerfully admits that both sides are built on inference. Leaving no doubt about his satirical intent, Twain then gleefully subverts his entire argument. After seeming to be a serious, even angry, combatant, he denies that he intended to convince anyone that Shakespeare was not the real author of his works."
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses ""Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"" is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. Drawing on examples from ""The Deerslayer"" and ""The Pathfinder"" from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the essay claims Cooper is guilty of verbose writing, poor plotting, glaring inconsistencies, overused clichés, cardboard characterizations, and a host of similar ""offenses"". The essay is characteristic of Twain's biting, derisive and highly satirical style of literary criticism, a form he also used to deride such authors as Oliver Goldsmith, George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Twain"
"through time by unknown means for a period of time. Time-slip is also popular in children's literature. Time-slip stories were popularized at the end of the 19th century by Mark Twain's historical novel ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", which has had considerable influence on later writers. In this novel an accident triggers the main character's slip in time and this has been a staple plot device of time-slip stories since, another being the time machine. In some time-slip stories, what caused and comes from the time-slip is highly significant. In others, the protagonist has no control and no"
"King Arthur"" (1880) reaching wide audiences and providing inspiration for Mark Twain's satiric ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1889). Although the 'Arthur of romance' was sometimes central to these new Arthurian works (as he was in Burne-Jones's ""The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon"", 1881-1898), on other occasions he reverted to his medieval status and is either marginalized or even missing entirely, with Wagner's Arthurian operas providing a notable instance of the latter. Furthermore, the revival of interest in Arthur and the Arthurian tales did not continue unabated. By the end of the 19th century, it was confined mainly"
"also includes fan-written, but professionally edited, collaborative material which are published in bi-monthly magazine titled ""The Grantville Gazettes"" and some collaborative short fictions. In terms of the history of Time Travel literature, the ""1632"" series can be considered an extension and modification of the basic idea dating back to Mark Twain's ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", in which a 19th-century American engineer, finding himself in 5th-century England, is able - all by himself - to introduce into the past society the full range of his time's technologies. In Flint's version, a whole modern community is transplanted into the"
"whose aim is vilification through insincere professions of honesty"". That afternoon Twain formally challenged Laird to a duel. Twain who had begun carrying a pistol again sent Laird a note, verifying that he was the author of the piece the ""Union"" railed against, and demanded he publicly retract his paper's ""insulting"" response. Historian Roy Jr. Morris states that ""although he could scarcely hold a pistol in his hand without threatening to shoot himself in the foot, he felt honor-bound to reply in kind to Laird's inflammatory words."" Laird was incensed to receive such a demand from Twain, from (as historian"
"any book written by a foreign observer before or since"". English writer Captain Marryat's critical account in his ""Diary in America, with Remarks on Its Institutions"" (1839) also proved controversial, especially in Detroit where an effigy of the author, along with his books, was burned. Other writers critical of American culture and manners included the bishop Talleyrand in France and Charles Dickens in England. Dickens' novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" (1844) is a ferocious satire on American life. Simon Schama says: ""By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American – voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist –"
"Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Fantasy Films list. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and William Bendix. Based on the novel ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1889) by Mark Twain, the film is about a mechanic in 1912 who bumps his head and finds himself in Arthurian Britain in AD 528, where he is befriended by a knight and gains power by judicious"