| Series |
Southern literary studies
Southern literary studies. ^A17900
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| Contents |
Introduction: "The Mississippi Was a Virgin Field" -- "There Is a World of River Stuff to Write About": Reconstructing the Mississippi -- "The Mighty River Lay like an Ocean": Aquatic Adventures for Transatlantic Boys -- "This Ain't That Kind of a River": Life, Death, and Memory on the Mississippi -- "Sometimes We'd Have That Whole River All to Ourselves": Runaways, Roustabouts, and the Limits of Freedom -- "I Went on A-Spinnin' Down de River": Underworlds and Undertows -- Epilogue: "A Black Wall of Night" |
| Abstract |
"Mark Twain's visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstream on their raft, Tom Sawyer and friends becoming pirates on Jackson's Island, the young Sam Clemens himself at the wheel of a steamboat. Through Twain's iconic river books, the Mississippi has become an imagined river as much as a real one. Yet despite the central place that Twain's river occupies in the national imaginary, until now no work has explored the shifting meaning of this crucial connection in a single volume"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Smith, Thomas Ruys, Deep water Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 9780807172865 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2019029979 |
| ISBN | 9780807171097 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0807171093 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
