Divina Frau-Meigs & Françoise Sammarcelli A Word from The Editors

Marc Chénetier & Marie-Jeanne Rossignol Introduction

Marco Sioli When the Mississippi Was an Indian River: Zebulon Pike's Trip from St. Louis to Its Sources, 1805-1806

Thomas Ruys Smith "The river now began to bear upon our imaginations:" Margaret Hall, Frances Trollope, Harriet Martineau, and the Problem of the Antebellum Mississippi

Jean-Marc Serme Stormy Weather at Andrew Jackson's Halcyon Plantation, in Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1838-1845

Michel Imbert Fluctuations in Life on the Mississippi : Drifting Off the Mainstream, Down the Stream of Consciousness

Ronald Jenn Transferring the Mississippi: Lexical, Literary and Cultural Aspects in Translations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Ted Widmer The Invention of a Memory: Congo Square and African Music in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

Géraldine Chouard Mississippi: an Odyssey of the In(di)visible

Eric Gonzalez In and Along the Mississippi: The Motif of Music in Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train

Review Essay Pascale Antolin Has F. Scott Fitzgerald Become a Literary Icon?

Roundtable Academic Journals and Publications: Mapping the Territories

Visual Folio Marie-Jeanne Rossignol Mapping the Mississippi, 1667-1803