Deep Water The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain /

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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Main Author: Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Series:Southern literary studies
Subjects:
River life > Mississippi River.
Mississippi River > Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley > Social life and customs.
Mississippi River > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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"

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