River of dreams : imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / Thomas Ruys Smith.
River of dreams : imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / Thomas Ruys Smith.
River of dreams : imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / Thomas Ruys Smith.
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Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
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N810.9372/1
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English
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Physical content
x, 232 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 -- Crim...
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Publisher
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
Louisiana
Date Published
c2007.
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"Thomas Ruys Smith's River of Dreams is an examination of the Mississippi's role in the antebellum imagination, exploring its cultural position in literature, art, thought, and national life."--BOOK JACKET.
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River of dreams : imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / Thomas Ruys Smith.
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Southern literary studies.
Southern literary studies.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223) and index.
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N810.9372/1
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74VK3pyrl3MM
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ISBN
0807132330 (alk. paper)
9780807132333 (alk. paper)
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810.9372
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991023669799702626
