Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men : Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories.
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Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men : Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories.
Yazar:
Smith, Thomas Ruys.
ISBN:
9780807137369
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Seri:
Southern Literary Studies
İçerik:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Many Lives of the Mississippi Gambler -- Prologue -- From Social Relations in Our Southern States DANIEL R. HUNDLEY -- Early Days -- The Vicksburg Tragedy -- From Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas RICHARD PENN SMITH -- Putting a Black-Leg on Shore BENJAMIN DRAKE -- From Richard Hurdis -- or, The Avenger of Blood WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS -- Antebellum (Mis)Adventures -- From Excursion Through the Slave States GEORGE W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH -- Sketches from the Spirit of the Times -- The Bivouac -- or, A Night at the Mouth of the Ohio, A Sketch of Western Voyaging JOSEPH HOLT INGRAHAM -- Taking Good Advice MADISON TENSAS (HENRY CLAY LEWIS) -- From Zilla Fitz James, The Female Bandit of the South-West ZILLA FITZ JAMES -- Turning the Tables -- Breaking a Bank SOLOMON SMITH -- Dialogue Between a Gambler and a Travelling Agent JONATHAN GREEN -- How Dodge "Dodged" the Sharpers M. G. LEWIS -- The Gamblers Outwitted EMERSON BENNETT -- From The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade HERMAN MELVILLE -- Gamblers and Slaves -- From Clotel -- or, The President's Daughter WILLIAM WELLS BROWN -- From Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb HENRY BIBB -- From The White Slave -- or, Memoirs of a Fugitive RICHARD HILDRETH -- From Hatchie, The Guardian Slave -- or, The Heiress of Bellevue WARREN T. ASHTON (REV. WILLIAM TAYLOR ADAMS) -- The Pilot's Story WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS -- Gilded Age Memories -- From The End of the World: A Love Story EDWARD EGGLESTON -- From Wanderings of a Vagabond: An Autobiography JOHN MORRIS (JOHN O'CONNOR) -- The Professor's Yarn MARK TWAIN -- From Old Times on the Upper Mississippi GEORGE BYRON MERRICK -- From Flush Fred's Full Hand -- or, Life and Strife in Louisiana EDWARD WILLETT.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi GEORGE DEVOL -- Three Portraits of "Canada" Bill Jones ALLAN PINKERTON, MASON LONG, GEORGE DEVOL -- Epilogue -- From Poker Stories -- Works Cited -- Footnotes -- Note 1 -- Note 2 -- Note 1.
Özet:
In Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men, Thomas Ruys Smith collects nineteenth-century stories, sketches, and book excerpts by a gallery of authors to create a comprehensive collection of writings about the riverboat gambler. The voices of canonized writers such as William Dean Howells, Herman Melville, and, inevitably, Mark Twain hold prominent positions. But they mingle seamlessly with lesser-known pieces such as an excerpt from Edward Willett's sensationalistic dime novel Flush Fred's Full Hand, raucous sketches by anonymous Old Southwestern humorists from The Spirit of the Times, and colorful accounts by now nearly forgotten authors like Daniel R. Hundley and George W. Featherstonhaugh. Smith puts the twenty-eight selections in perspective with an Introduction that for the first time thoroughly explores the history and myth surrounding this endlessly fascinating American cultural icon.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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