River of Dreams
Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain
Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American culture and consciousness. Throughout the antebellum era, the Mississippi acted as a powerful symbol of America's conception of itself -- and the world's conception of America. As Twain understood, The Mississippi is well worth reading about. Thomas Ruys Smith's River of Dreams is an examination of the Mississippi's role in the antebellum imagination, exploring its cultural position in literature, art, thought, and national life.Presidents, politicians, authors, poets, painters, and i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-4308-7
- EAN: 9780807143087
- Produktnummer: 27861025
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'226 KB
- Abbildungen: 26 Halftones, 1 Map
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Thomas Ruys Smith
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