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. Throug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Homes and haunts > Mississippi River.
Travel.
River life.
Manners and customs.
Literature.
Homes.
River life > Mississippi River.
Mississippi River Valley.
Mississippi River.
Mississippi River > Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley > Social life and customs.
Mississippi River > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (345 pages).
ISBN:9780807172865

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