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Deep Water : The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain / Thomas Ruys Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Southern literary studies.
- Southern literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel.
- River life.
- Manners and customs.
- Literature.
- Homes.
- River life--Mississippi River.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Mississippi River.
- Mississippi River--Description and travel.
- Mississippi River Valley--Social life and customs.
- Mississippi River--In literature.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Homes and haunts--Mississippi River.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
- 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:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780807172872
- 0807172871
- OCLC:
- 1273307214
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