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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (216 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807158241 |