Deep Water The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain /
"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. Throug...
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[2020]
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505 | 0 | |a 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" | |
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