River of dreams
Subtitle: imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain
By: Thomas Ruys Smith.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baton Rouge, LA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780807132333
Description: "Thomas Ruys Smith's River of Dreams is an examination of the Mississippi's role in the antebellum imagination, exploring its cultural position in literature, art, thought, and national life."--BOOK JACKET.