Deep Water
The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain
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Author
Publication
2019 - Louisiana State University Press
Language
English
Word Count
90,000 words, Guess
Page Count
360 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28933425M
- ISBN-139780807171097
- OCLC Control Number1138066770
- OCLC Control Number1119121032
- Library of Congress Control Number2019029979
Classifications
- LCCPS1334.S65 2020
- LCCPS1334 .S65 2019
Description
"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"--
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