Mark Twain’s Mississippi River world
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Mark Twain’s Mississippi River world is the richly imagined 19th-century American river setting that provides the backdrop for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional setting
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imagined geography ⓘ literary universe ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
childhood and loss of innocence
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critique of slavery ⓘ freedom versus civilization ⓘ moral growth and conscience ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Mark Twain’s boyhood experiences in Hannibal, Missouri
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Mark Twain’s experience as a Mississippi River steamboat pilot ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Mark Twain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
boyhood adventures
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family life in river towns ⓘ frontier culture ⓘ racial injustice ⓘ raft journeys ⓘ religious revivalism and superstition ⓘ river travel by steamboat ⓘ rural poverty ⓘ slavery in the American South ⓘ small-town American life ⓘ vigilante justice and mob behavior ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Arkansas river town
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Hannibal, Missouri (real town, fictionalized) NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackson’s Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ Phelps farm NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Petersburg, Missouri (fictional town) NERFINISHED ⓘ caves and wooded hills ⓘ river islands ⓘ river towns ⓘ sandbars and shoals ⓘ slaveholding plantations ⓘ steamboat landings ⓘ |
| influencedWork |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
NERFINISHED
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Life on the Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Sawyer Abroad NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Sawyer, Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFeature |
regional dialects
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vernacular speech ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American realism
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regionalism ⓘ |
| primarySettingOf |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
NERFINISHED
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Life on the Mississippi (narrative portions) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setAlong | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
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antebellum South ⓘ pre–Civil War era ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.