| Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Revised) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kennedy, Richard S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807122734 ISBN-13: 9780807122730 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 810.9 |
| LCCN: 91040564 |
| Series: Southern Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.57" W x 8.51" (0.30 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers -- George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin -- as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City home at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy. In the book's final essay, Lewis P. Simpson reflects on the history of New Orleans as a literary center, giving special emphasis to Percy's The Moviegoer and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. |