Imagining the Creole City : The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America''s golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary out-put-histories and novels, poetry and plays-that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fertel, Rien, 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature and society.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature et societe > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Literature and society > Louisiana > New Orleans.
American literature > Louisiana > New Orleans > History and criticism.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Intellectual life.
New Orleans (La.) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America''s golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary out-put-histories and novels, poetry and plays-that white Creoles used to imagine themselves as a unified community of writers and readers. Rien Fertel argues that Charles Gayarre''s English-language histories of Louisiana, which emphasized the state''s dual connection to America and to France, provided the foundation of a white Creole print culture predicated.
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780807158241

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