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Deep Water - The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (Hardcover)
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Deep Water - The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Literary Studies
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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. 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. Thomas Ruys Smith's
Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain is the
first book to provide a comprehensive narrative account of Twain's
intimate and long-lasting creative engagement with the Mississippi.
This expansive study traces two separate but richly intertwined
stories of the river as America moved from the aftermath of the
Civil War toward modernity. It follows Twain's remarkable
connection to the Mississippi, from his early years on the river as
a steamboat pilot, through his most significant literary
statements, to his final reflections on the crooked stream that
wound its way through his life and imagination. Alongside Twain's
evolving relationship to the river, Deep Water details the thriving
cultural life of the Mississippi in this period, from roustabouts
to canoeists, from books for boys to blues songs, and highlights a
diverse collection of voices each telling their own story of the
river. Smith weaves together these perspectives, putting Twain and
his creations in conversation with a dynamic cast of river
characters who helped transform the Mississippi into a vibrant
American icon. By balancing evocative cultural history with
thought-provoking discussions of some of Twain's most important and
beloved works, Deep Water gives readers a new sense of both the
Mississippi and the remarkable writer who made the river his own.
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