Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world / by Buchanan, Thomas C., 1967-

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William Alexander Percy : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker / by Wise, Benjamin E.

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Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement by Melton, Jeffrey Alan, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The success of travel books and the failure of tourism -- Tourism and travel writing in the nineteenth century -- Touring the Old World : faith and leisure in The innocents abroad and A tramp abroad -- Touring the New World : the search for home in Roughing it and Life on the Mississippi -- Touring the round : imperialism and the failure of travel writing in Following the equator.…”
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Student companion to Mark Twain by Sloane, David E. E., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The life of Mark Twain -- Twain's career and contributions to American literature -- Twain's early short stories and sketches -- The personal travel narratives : The innocents abroad, Roughing it, Life on the Mississippi, and others -- The adventure of Tom Sawyer -- The prince and the pauper -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court -- Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Twain's later short writings.…”
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Mark Twain and the American West by Coulombe, Joseph L., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Go east, young man : class conflict and degenerate manhood in Mark Twain's early writings -- Mark Twain as western outlaw : masculine language, violence, and success in Roughing it -- Moneyed ruffians : the new American hero in Life on the Mississippi -- Mark Twain's Native Americans and the repeated racial pattern in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The eco-criticized Huck Finn : another look at nature in the works of Mark Twain -- Mark Twain's influence on Willa Cather's West.…”
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Through the Negative : the Photographic Image and the Written Word in. by Williams, Megan

Table of Contents: “…Five: Seeing in Circles: The Moving Panorama and Imagesof a Sanitized History in Mark Twain's Life On theMississippiSix: Snapshot Memory and Flashes of History in StephenCrane's The Red Badge of Courage; Epilogue: Foundations of Dust and Stone; Notes; Works Consulted; Index…”
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The mythologizing of Mark Twain

Table of Contents: “…Ensor; Part II: Twain Mythologizes Twain; Autobiography as Property: Mark Twain and His Legend / Alan Gribben; Mark Twain, ""Funniest Man in the World"" / Henry Nash Smith; A ""Talent for Posturing"": The Achievement of Mark Twain's Public Personality / Louis J. Budd; Life on the Mississippi Revisited / James M. Cox.…”
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John Doe no. 2 and the Dreamland Motel by Womack, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""1 The Dreamland Motel""; ""2 Innocents Abroad""; ""3 The Shooter""; ""4 My Platonic Sweetheart""; ""5 Eff You""; ""6 The Gun That Won the West""; ""7 The Mysterious Stranger""; ""8 Life on the Mississippi""; ""9 The Royal Nonesuch""; ""10 Buffalo Billâ€?…”
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Gods of the Mississippi

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Religious life on the Mississippi / Michael Pasquier -- "The singing of the Mississippi" : The river and religions of the Black Atlantic / Jon F. …”
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Mississippi Triangle

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PBS NewsHour. Jesmyn Ward's 'Sing, unburied, sing' is a ghost story about the real struggles of living

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Vision USA. No. 85, 1979.

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Larry Brown : a writer's life by Cash, Jean W., 1938-

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Faulkner and his contemporaries

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The life of Mark Twain : the middle years, 1871-1891 by Scharnhorst, Gary

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Troubadour on the Road to Gold : William B. Lorton's 1849 Journal to California by Lorton, William B., 1828-1892

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