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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Starr, S. Frederick (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Description and travel.
New Orleans (La.) > Literary collections.
Literary collections.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations, map
ISBN:9781604736328

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