123 records matched your query
02643aam a2200409 i 4500 001 EF49690E471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 190826s2019 lau b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2019029979 020 $a 0807171093 020 $a 9780807171097 035 $a (OCoLC)1119121032 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usm-- 050 00 $a PS1334 S65 2019 100 1 $a Smith, Thomas Ruys, $d 1979- $e author. 245 10 $a Deep water / $c Thomas Ruys Smith. 264 1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xi, 330 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Southern literary studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 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" 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910 $x Homes and haunts $z Mississippi River. 600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a River life $z Mississippi River. 651 0 $a Mississippi River $x In literature. 651 0 $a Mississippi River Valley $x Social life and customs. 651 0 $a Mississippi River $x Description and travel. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Smith, Thomas Ruys, $t Deep water $d Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020. $z 9780807172865 $w (DLC) 2019029980 830 0 $a Southern literary studies 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303023529.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF49690E471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search