River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain /

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Sonraí bibleagrafaíochta
Príomhchruthaitheoir: Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-
Údar corparáideach: ebrary, Inc
Formáid: Leictreonach Ríomhleabhar
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
Sraith:Southern literary studies.
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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.