River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain /

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Main Author: Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
Series:Southern literary studies.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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245 1 0 |a River of dreams  |h [electronic resource] :  |b imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain /  |c Thomas Ruys Smith. 
260 |a Baton Rouge :  |b Louisiana State University Press,  |c c2007. 
300 |a x, 232 p., [10] p. of plates :  |b ill., map. 
490 1 |a Southern literary studies 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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651 0 |a Mississippi River  |x In literature. 
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