Format:
xi, 330 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780807171097
Series Statement:
Southern literary studies
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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"
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF Smith, Thomas Ruys Deep water Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020 ISBN 978-0-8071-7286-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epub Smith, Thomas Ruys Deep water Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020 ISBN 978-0-8071-7287-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Twain, Mark 1835-1910
;
Mississippi
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