Mississippi Argonauts
Author | : John Henton Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Southern States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Henton Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Southern States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Payne Thompson |
Publisher | : New Orleans : Press of Perry & Buckley Company |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael R. Allen |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1994-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807119075 |
Western Rivermen, the first documented sociocultural history of its subject, is a fascinating book. Michael Allen explores the rigorous lives of professional boatmen who plied non-steam vessels—flatboats, keelboats, and rafts—on the Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers from 1763-1861. Allen first considers the mythical “half horse, half alligator” boatmen who were an integral part of the folklore of the time. Americans of the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War period perceived the rivermen as hard-drinking, straight-shooting adventurers on the frontier. Their notions were reinforced by romanticized portrayals of the boatmen in songs, paintings, newspaper humor, and literature. Allen contends that these mythical depictions of the boatmen were a reflection of the yearnings of an industrializing people for what they thought to be a simpler time. Allen demonstrates, however, that the actual lives of the rivermen little resembled their portrayals in popular culture. Drawing on more than eighty firsthand accounts—ranging from a short letter to a four-volume memoir—he provides a rounded view of the boatmen that reveals the lonely, dangerous nature of their profession. He also discusses the social and economic aspects of their lives, such as their cargoes, the river towns they visited, and the impact on their lives of the steamboat and advancing civilization. Allen’s comprehensive, highly informative study sheds new light on a group of men who played an important role in the development of the trans-Appalachian West and the ways in which their lives were transformed into one of the enduring themes of American folk culture.
Author | : Geoffrey D. Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 1997-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521434690 |
A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.
Author | : James A. Kaser |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2014-07-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810892049 |
The importance of New Orleans in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on New Orleans-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 500 works of fiction significantly set in New Orleans and published between 1836 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction—as well as literary fiction—are included.