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. 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. Thomas Ruys Smith's Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain is th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-7287-2
- EAN: 9780807172872
- Produktnummer: 32909922
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 345 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'713 KB
- Abbildungen: 9 halftones
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Thomas Ruys Smith
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