River of dreams [electronic resource] : imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / Thomas Ruys Smith.
Material type: TextSeries: Southern literary studiesPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.Description: x, 232 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 810.9/372 22
- PS217.M58 S65 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.