Inventing New Orleans : writings of Lafcadio Hearn

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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 se...

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Main Author: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 (Author)
Other Authors: Starr, S. Frederick (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2001
Subjects:
New Orleans (La.) > Literary collections.
New Orleans (La.) > Description and travel.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Man Who Invented New Orleans
  • 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 Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana
  • Rod and Gun
  • 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 Alive
  • Creole 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!

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