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Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Revised)

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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard S. Kennedy (Editor)Series:Southern Literary StudiesPublish date:1998-04-01Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807122730ISBN-10:807122734UPC:9780807122730Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, EssaysSize:8.51 x 5.57 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC8TKQR8WT

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807122730ISBN-10:807122734UPC:9780807122730Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, EssaysSize:8.51 x 5.57 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC8TKQR8WT

Richard S. Kennedy (1920--2002) was the author of Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of e. e. Cummings and The Window of Memory: A Literary Biography of Thomas Wolfe. He also edited the collection Literary New Orleans in the Modern World. He was a professor emeritus of English at Temple University in Philadelphia.


Publisher: LSU Press

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