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Author:

Fertel, Rien, 1980- author.

Title:

Imagining the Creole City : the rise of literary culture in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Rien Fertel.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

American literature--New Orleans--New Orleans--History and criticism.
Literature and society--New Orleans.--New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.)--Intellectual life.
New Orleans (La.)--In literature.
American literature.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Literature and society.
Louisiana--New Orleans.
Literatur.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Kreolische Sprachen.
Literarisches Leben.
New Orleans, La.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-193) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Creating the white Louisiana creole -- Charles Gayarré and the cultivation of a Louisiana creole print terroir -- Catholic priest and poet Adrien Rouquette Bridges the Atlantic Ocean -- Alfred Mercier, the Athénée louisianais, and the fight to preserve the French language -- George Washington Cable, blood matters, and the creole backlash -- Grace King's lost creole cause and the feminization of New Orleans's creole culture -- Conclusion: Creating the Creole City in the twentieth century.

ISBN:

0807158232 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807158234 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)880499944

LCCN:

2014018055

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)