Deep water /
Author / Creator: | Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- author. |
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Imprint: | Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019] |
Description: | xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Southern literary studies Southern literary studies. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11998231 |
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. |
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Physical Description: | xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780807171097 0807171093 9780807172865 9780807172872 |