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Author:

Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-

Title:

River of dreams : imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / Thomas Ruys Smith.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

x, 232 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
Mississippi River--In literature.
United States--Civilization--1783-1865
United States--Civilization--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807132330 (alk. paper)
9780807132333 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)72161802

LCCN:

2006032210

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)