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Walt Whitman's New Orleans : Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles /
"Scholars and biographers often mention Walt Whitman's short stint in New Orleans-three months in the spring of 1848-as a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with some of the author's most celebrated poems showing distinct influences of the city. Working for the local...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: Crossing the Alleghanies
- Cincinnati and Louisville
- Western Steamboats
- The Ohio
- The Mississippi at Midnight
- SKETCHES OF NEW ORLEANS
- Novelties in New Orleans
- Firemen Celebration
- The Sabbath
- Daguerreotype Portraits
- "The Season," Hereabouts
- Mardi Gras
- The Habitants of Hotels
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Peter Funk, Esq
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Miss Dusky Grisette
- Celebration of St. Patrick's Day
- Hebrew Benevolent Association Ball
- Health and Cleanliness
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Daggerdraw Bowieknife, Esq
- New Orleans Sabbath Recreations
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: John). Jinglebrain
- The Nights of New Orleans
- In the Wrong Box
- Serious but Ludicrous Accident
- New Orleans in Mud
- Razors, Reason, and Resolution
- Visit of a Distinguished Personage
- Non-Ascension of the Balloon
- Who Shall Wear Motley?
- Day after the Election!
- Strangers, Beware!
- The Balloon Blow Up
- Bouquets
- Lafayette Square
- Vagrants
- The Old Cathedral
- The "News Boys." A Street Conversation
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Timothy Goujon, V.O.N.O.
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Mrs. Giddy Gay Butterfly
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Patrick McDray
- A Walk about Town: By a Pedestrian
- To the Seekers of Pleasure
- Carrollton
- Steam Stronger Than Shot
- A Sabbath Sketch: Or, Going to and Coming from Church
- Public Squares
- A Night at the Terpsichore Ball: By "You Know Who"
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Doctor Sangrado Snipes
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Old Benjamin Broekindown
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Samuel Sensitive, Part I
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Samuel Sensitive, Part II
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Miss Virginity Roseblossom
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Ephraim Broadhorn. A Flatboatman from Kentucky
- EPILOGUE: MEMORIES OF NEW ORLEANS
- Manuscript Fragment about New Orleans (ca. 1848, with Later Additions)
- New Orleans in 1848 (New Orleans Picayune, January 25, 1887)
- Calamus Leaves (Manuscript)
- APPENDIX A LETTERS FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON ("JEFF") WHITMAN TO HIS FAMILY
- Mid-February: Trip to New Orleans and First Impressions
- March 14: Employment at the Crescent and City Perambulations
- March 27: Daily Life
- April 23: Sickness and Home-Sickness
- APPENDIX B ADDITIONAL EDITORIALS
- Model Artists
- General Taylor at the Theatre
- A Question of Propriety
- University Studies.