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"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. Throug...

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Main Author: Smith, Thomas Ruys 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2019]
Series:Southern literary studies
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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"--
Physical Description:xi, 330 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780807171097

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