Deep Water
Thomas Ruys Smith, Scott Romine · 2019
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About the book
"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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 360
- ISBN
- 9780807171097
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