Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Revised) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kennedy, Richard S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807122734 ISBN-13: 9780807122730 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: April 1998 Click for more in this series: Southern Literary Studies |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
Dewey: 810.9 |
LCCN: 91040564 |
Series: Southern Literary Studies |
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.57" W x 8.51" L (0.3 lbs) 112 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana |
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Publisher Description: This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers -- George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin -- as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City home at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy. In the book's final essay, Lewis P. Simpson reflects on the history of New Orleans as a literary center, giving special emphasis to Percy's The Moviegoer and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. |
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