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Thomas Ruys Smith: Television: Myth Hunters / Anglia News
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Thursday, July 30, 2015. Television: Myth Hunters / Anglia News. Long time, no update - so a quick couple of posts about things that I've been doing over the last year (gosh). First, television news. I'm featured in Episode 3, Season 3 of Myth Hunters. The Lost Ship of the Mojave Desert" - mainly talking about the California Gold Rush. This was a fun gig. Here am I am, holding forth:. And then, at the end of last year, it was a pleasure to talk about highwaymen for Anglia News.
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Thomas Ruys Smith: Must Read: Reviews
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014. Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from. The Da Vinci Code. Has been receiving some gratifying reviews recently. In American Book Review. Churchwell’s and Smith’s “Introduction” is masterful, and it, alone, makes the volume worth reading. They not only offer a thorough, engaging historical overview of bestsellers in America, but also map the scholarly field of American popular for their audience [.] Must Read. In Studies in the Novel. Ranging from the late eighteenth to ...
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Thomas Ruys Smith: Books
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Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century. Advance praise from Anthony Stanonis, author of Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945. University of Georgia Press, 2006):. A sweeping history of nineteenth century New Orleans, as provided now by Thomas Ruys Smith's Southern Queen. Advance praise from Thomas C. Buchanan, author of Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World. Available from Amazon here. Continuum, 201...
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Thomas Ruys Smith: About
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Thomas Ruys Smith is an academic and writer who specialises in the study of nineteenth-century America. He is currently Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture. At the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, and Head of the Department of American Studies. In particular, his research is focussed around the Mississippi River. His first book, River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain. And appeared on radio ( BBC Book Café,. And television ( Heir Hunters, Myth Hunters.
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Thomas Ruys Smith: Articles, etc.
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Bring Our Country Back': Country Music, Conservatives, and the Counter-Culture in 1968", Studies in American Culture. 341 (October 2011), 103-129. Exploring the multifaceted nature of country music in 1968, thinking about its role in George Wallace's presidential campaign, its growing appeal for the counter-culture, and the ways in which Merle Haggard, left, fused these disparate elements. Full text (PDF) here. 28:3 (October 2009), 263-276. 41:2 (Fall 2009), 57-68. 59:1-2 (Winter-Spring 2006), 129-160.
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Thomas Ruys Smith: British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists - Inaugural Symposium
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Thursday, October 31, 2013. British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists - Inaugural Symposium. Tomorrow I'm heading out to the inaugural symposium of the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. BrANCA for short - at the University of Sussex. I think that the creation of this organisation has been one of the more exciting academic developments of the past year or so, so I was even more thrilled to be asked to chair one of the panels. The full programme's available here.
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Thomas Ruys Smith: Public Lecture: Norfolk to New Orleans: Riding, Reading and Writing the Mississippi River, Norwich Forum, June 4th
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Thursday, May 09, 2013. Public Lecture: Norfolk to New Orleans: Riding, Reading and Writing the Mississippi River, Norwich Forum, June 4th. Harriet Martineau, Jonathan Raban. This June, I'm delighted to be taking part in the UEA Showcase Week taking place at the Norwich Forum as part of the University's 50th anniversary celebrations. More details are available here. And the full schedule of talks (featuring some very hot tickets) is here. And in River of Dreams. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Thomas Ruys Smith: The Readex Report: “A Family Newspaper”: Pearl Rivers and the Rebirth of the New Orleans Daily Picayune
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Monday, September 23, 2013. The Readex Report: “A Family Newspaper”: Pearl Rivers and the Rebirth of the New Orleans Daily Picayune. My article on Pearl Rivers - poet, journalist, first female editor of an American daily newspaper - and her relationship with the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Has just been published in the Readex Report. The whole thing's available here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Thomas Ruys Smith: Southern Quarterly: Roustabouts, Steamboats, and the Old Way to Dixie: The Mississippi River and the Southern Imaginary in the Early Twentieth Century
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Friday, July 31, 2015. Southern Quarterly: Roustabouts, Steamboats, and the Old Way to Dixie: The Mississippi River and the Southern Imaginary in the Early Twentieth Century. I was thrilled to be invited to contribute something to the latest edition of the The Southern Quarterly,. 1894), his last major statement on the river, and Edna Ferber's Show Boat. Alternatively, I've uploaded my article here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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