TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Thomas Ruys
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - River of dreams: imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain 
T2  - Southern literary studies
AV  - PS217.M58 S65 2007eb
U1  - 810.9/372 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Baton Rouge
PB  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 1783-1850
KW  - Mississippi River
KW  - In literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1783-1865
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223) and index; Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10453811
ER  -