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Hearn Lafcadio <1850-1904.>
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Inventing New Orleans [[electronic resource] ] : writings of Lafcadio Hearn / / edited, with an intoduction by S. Frederick Starr
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Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813/.4 |
Soggetto geografico: | New Orleans (La.) Literary collections |
New Orleans (La.) Description and travel | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
StarrS. Frederick
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Paradise |
Saint 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 Talk | |
Why 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 Louisiana | |
Jewish 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 Dialects | |
Notes on Sources | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Lafcadio 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, t |
Titolo autorizzato: | Inventing New Orleans ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-38199-0 |
9786613381996 | |
1-60473-632-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457862803321 |
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