First, sorry for cross-posting to those who are on both Twain-L and
Amlit-L.

I'll be teaching Twain's Connecticut Yankee for the first time next
week and I wondered what everyone thought about the novel's attitude
towards modern science and invention.  I'm familar with the arguments
concerning Twain's frustration with the Paige typesetting machine,
yet those horrid scenes which accurately depict mankind's ability
to wage "modern" warfare go far beyond such frustrations.  Surely, such
horrors also go beyond Twain's anger at the English and their romantic
notions of feudalism.

Any opinions on this matter?

Michael O'Conner