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Author / Creator:	Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- author.
Imprint:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
Description:	xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Southern literary studies Southern literary studies.
Subject:	Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi River. Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation. Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910. River life -- Mississippi River. Homes. Literature. Manners and customs. River life. Travel. Mississippi River -- In literature. Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs. Mississippi River -- Description and travel. Mississippi River. Mississippi River Valley. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11998231

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ISBN:	9780807171097 0807171093 9780807172865 9780807172872
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Smith, Thomas Ruys, Deep water Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 9780807172865

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