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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Booklist Review

Writing in Booklist (May 1, 2007), the publication of the American Library Association, George Cohen described River of Dreams as "a lively and wide-ranging account of this majestic body of water."

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Dr Thomas Ruys Smith is an academic and writer working in a number of research areas focused around the Mississippi River. Blackleg is an occasional record of the fruits of his labour.

River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007)
"'Dead Men Tell No Tales': outlaw John A. Murrell on the antebellum stage", European Journal of American Culture, 28:3 (October 2009), 263-276
"The Mississippi River as Site and Symbol", Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 62-78
'Before the Deluge: Reading, Writing and Rebuilding New Orleans' in Material Culture, 41:2 (Fall 2009), 57-68
'Review of Thomas Buchanan's Black Life on the Mississippi' in Journal of American Studies, 42:2 (August 2008), 358
'Independence Day, 1835: The John A. Murrell Conspiracy and the Lynching of the Vicksburg Gamblers in Literature' in Mississippi Quarterly, 59:1-2 (Winter-Spring 2006), 129-160
'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', Literary Encyclopedia

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