River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain /
Sparad:
| Huvudskapare: | |
|---|---|
| Institutionell skapare: | |
| Materialtyp: | Elektronisk E-bok |
| Språk: | engelska |
| Publicerad: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2007.
|
| Serie: | Southern literary studies.
|
| Ämnen: | |
| Länkar: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
| Taggar: |
Lägg till en tagg
Inga taggar, Lägg till första taggen!
|
Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.