Image as Levee: the Mississippi River before Mark Twain. In the first half of the nineteenth century—decades before Mark Twain's first publications on the topic—the Mississippi River circulated widely in the form of touring paintings, fine art and popular prints, maps, and moving panoramas. These images helped to create expectations about, a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Luarca-Shoaf, Nenette
Created:
2015-04-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Image as Levee: the Mississippi River before Mark Twain. In the first half of the nineteenth century—decades before Mark Twain's first publications on the topic—the Mississippi River circulated widely in the form of touring paintings, fine art and popular prints, maps, and moving panoramas. These images helped to create expectations about, a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Luarca-Shoaf, Nenette
Created:
2015-04-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
