Deep water / Thomas Ruys Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- author.

Series:

Southern literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Homes and haunts--Mississippi River.

Twain, Mark.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

River life--Mississippi River.

River life.

Criticism and interpretation.

Mississippi River--In literature.

Mississippi River.

Mississippi River Valley--Social life and customs.

Mississippi River Valley.

Manners and customs.

Mississippi River--Description and travel.

Homes.

Literature.

Travel.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Mark Twain's visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstream on their raft, Tom Sawyer and friends becoming pirates on Jackson's Island, the young Sam Clemens himself at the wheel of a steamboat. Through Twain's iconic river books, the Mississippi has become an imagined river as much as a real one. Yet despite the central place that Twain's river occupies in the national imaginary, until now no work has explored the shifting meaning of this crucial connection in a single volume"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: "The Mississippi Was a Virgin Field"

"There Is a World of River Stuff to Write About": Reconstructing the Mississippi

"The Mighty River Lay like an Ocean": Aquatic Adventures for Transatlantic Boys

"This Ain't That Kind of a River": Life, Death, and Memory on the Mississippi

"Sometimes We'd Have That Whole River All to Ourselves": Runaways, Roustabouts, and the Limits of Freedom

"I Went on A-Spinnin' Down de River": Underworlds and Undertows

Epilogue: "A Black Wall of Night"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Smith, Thomas Ruys, Deep water

ISBN:

9780807171097

0807171093

OCLC:

1119121032