Lafcadio Hearn's America [[electronic resource] ] : Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials / / edited by Simon J. Bronner

• Autore: Hearn Lafcadio <1850-1904.>
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2002; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 814/.4
• Soggetto topico: Social classes - United States - History - 19th century; Ethnology - United States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions 1865-1918 Anecdotes; United States Social life and customs 1865-1918 Anecdotes; United States Description and travel Anecdotes
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BronnerSimon J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-233).
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Lafcadio Hearn's America; PART I: COMMUNITIES AND THE ""UNDER SIDE"" OF AMERICA; 1. Levee Life: Haunts and Pastimes of the Roustabouts; 2. Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana; 3. Sicilians in New Orleans; 4. The Last of the New Orleans Fencing-Masters; 5. A Gypsy Camp; 6. Some Pictures of Poverty: Impressions of a Round with an Overseer of the Poor; 7. Pariah People: Outcast Life by Night in the East End; 8. Les Chiffonniers: How They Live, Work and Have Their Being ; 9. Within the Bars: How Prisoners Look, Live, and Conduct ThemselvesThe County Jail; The Prisoners; Inside the Cells; Men Ought to Grow Fat; Individual Habits; Fine Art; Literature; Bond, the Tomahawker; Other Newspaper Familiars; The Health of the Imprisoned; Keeping Them Clean; Air and Water; Outside Friends; Escape; 10. Cincinnati Salamanders: A Confederation of Twenty Little Communities; 11. Steeple Climbers; PART II: ""ENORMOUS AND LURID FACTS"": LANGUAGE, FOLKLIFE, AND CULTURE; 12. Cheek; 13. The Creole Patois; 14. The Creole Doctor; 15. The Last of the Voudoos ; 16. New Orleans Superstitions17. The Music of the Masses; 18. Black Varieties: The Minstrels of the Row; 19. Among the Spirits: An Enquirer Reporter Communicates with His Father; 20. Some Strange Experience: The Reminiscences of a Ghost-Seer; 21. Haceldama: Hebrew Slaughterers, Gentile Butchers, and Consumptive Blood-Drinkers; 22. The Manufacture of Yellow and Rockingham Ware in Cincinnati; PART III: OPINIONS OF AMERICA; 23. Growth of Population in America; 24. The Labour Problem in America; 25. The Race-Problem in America; 26. Some Japanese Ideas of American Policy ; 27. Prevention of Cruelty to Women28. Recent American Novels; 29. American Magazines; 30. American Art Tastes; 31. The French in Louisiana; 32. The Roar of a Great City; Bibliography; Sources of the Essays; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of urban American life in the nineteenth century, and much of this material has not been widely available since the 1950s. Lafcadio Hearn's America collects Hearn's stories of vagabonds, river people, mystics, criminals, and some of the earliest accounts available of black and ethnic urban folklife in America. He was a frequently consulted expert on America during his years in Japan, and these editorials reflect on th
• Titolo autorizzato: Lafcadio Hearn's America
• ISBN: 0-8131-8923-3; 0-8131-5635-1; 0-8131-7046-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910860884303321
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