04674nam 2200601 a 450 991045786280332120200520144314.01-283-38199-097866133819961-60473-632-1(CKB)2550000000081552(EBL)834105(OCoLC)773827395(SSID)ssj0000599354(PQKBManifestationID)11369835(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000599354(PQKBWorkID)10596020(PQKB)10390760(MiAaPQ)EBC834105(Au-PeEL)EBL834105(CaPaEBR)ebr10527186(EXLCZ)99255000000008155220001108d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInventing New Orleans[electronic resource] writings of Lafcadio Hearn /edited, with an intoduction by S. Frederick StarrJackson University Press of Mississippic20011 online resource (259 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57806-353-1 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Contents; Acknowlegments; Introduction: The Man Who Invented New Orleans; I. The Outsider as Insider: Impressions; Memphis to New Orleans; At the Gate of the Tropics; The City of the South; The Streets; The French Market; Los Criollos; New Orleans in Wet Weather; New Orleans Letter; New Orleans in Carnival Garb; The Last of the New Orleans Fencing Masters; Under the Oaks; Executions; The Creole Doctor: Some Curiosities of Medicine in Louisiana; The Death of Marie Laveau; St. John's Eve-Voudouism; The Last of the Voudoos; The Garden of ParadiseSaint Maló: A Lacustrine Village in LouisianaRod and Gun; II. From the Land of Dreams: Sketches; Voices of Dawn; Char-Coal; The Flower Sellers; Cakes and Candy; Washerwomen; Des Perches; Shine?; The Man with the Small Electric Machine; Under the Electric Light; --! --!! Mosquitoes!!!; The Festive; The Wolfish Dog; The Go-at; The Alligators; Wet Enough For You?; Web-Footed; A Creole Type; Complaint of a Creole Boarding-House Keeper; The Boarder's Reply; A Kentucky Colonel Renting Rooms; The Restless Boarder; Furnished Rooms; Ghosteses; A Creole Journal; Ultra-Canal; An Ultra-Canal TalkWhy Crabs Are Boiled AliveCreole Servant Girls; The Creole Character; All Saints!; Does Climate Affect the Character of People?; The City of Dreams; A Dream of Kites; The Tale of a Fan; Les Coulisses (The French Opera); French Opera; Down Among the Dives: A Midnight Sketch; Fire!; That Piano Organ; A Creole Courtyard; The Accursed Fig Tree; Home; A Visitor; Opening Oysters; By the Murmuring Waves; Spanish Moss; The Lord Sends Trials and Tribulations to Strengthen and Pacify Our Hearts; Ye Pilot; III. Of Vices and Virtues: Editorials; Latin and Anglo-Saxon; French in LouisianaJewish Emigrants for LouisianaQuack! Quack!; The Opium Dens; Scénes de la Vie des Hoodlums; Blackmailing; The Indignant Dead; Improved Police Ideas; Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before; A Visit to New Orleans; Whited Sepulchres; Old-Fashioned Houses; La Douane; The Haunted and the Haunters; The Unspeakable Velocipede; The Organ Grinder; The Puller of Noses; The Glamour of New Orleans; The Dawn of the Carnival; The Pelican's Ghost; IV. Reports from the Field: Longer Studies; La Cuisine Créole; Gombo Zhèbes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole DialectsNotes on SourcesLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling his writing in such periodicals as the New Orleans Daily Item, Times-Democrat, Harper's Weekly, and Scribner's Magazine he crystallized the way Americans view New Orleans and its south Louisiana environs. Hearn was prolific, producing colorful and vivid sketches, vignettes, news articles, essays, tNew Orleans (La.)Literary collectionsNew Orleans (La.)Description and travelElectronic books.813/.4Hearn Lafcadio1850-1904.184617Starr S. Frederick37370MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457862803321Inventing New Orleans2159782UNINA