River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain /
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2007.
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| Colección: | Southern literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule"
- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have"
- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators"
- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream"
- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi
- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld
- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.