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Book Review


River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain. By Thomas Ruys Smith. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xii, 232 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3233-3.)
Thomas Ruys Smith proposes to give us a guide to antebellum writings about the Mississippi River basin and to show us how these writings indicate Americans' steady shift in attitudes toward the river. "Progressively, the river represented a dream of empire; a fertile frontier; an uneasy fashionable tour; a moving panorama; and an underworld, leading to war and eventual cultural resurrection" (p. 5). He succeeds admirably in giving us the guide but comes up short in the analysis. . . .
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