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

by Rien Fertel

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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 output --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 Gayarr 's English-language histories...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807158232

ISBN13:9780807158234

Release Date:November 2014

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.91 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.4" x 8.9"

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