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As A Source Of Literary Inspiration, New Orleans Has Few Peers Among American Cities. For More Than A Century Writers Of Diverse Stripe Have Been Drawn By The City's Singular Appeal, A Result Of The Intermingling Of A Host Of Cultural Influences--french, Spanish, African, West Indian--as Well As The Lingering Vestiges Of The Frontier Spirit And The Ordeals Of The Civil War. Literary New Orleans Is An Altogether Engaging Collection Of Ruminations On Some Of The Most. Important Writers Who Have Fallen Under The Spell Of This Exotic Place. The Nineteenth-century Author George Washington Cable, Though A Native New Orleanian, Was In Many Respects An Outsider. As Alice Hall Petry Notes, Cable, A Man Of Puritan Ancestry, Frequently Cast A Critical Eye On What He Perceived To Be The Moral Failings Of New Orleans Society, Particularly In Regard To Issues Of Race. Grace King, On The Other Hand, Was An Unfailing Apologist For Her City And. Region. Robert Bush Writes About King's Life And Career, Noting That She Combined A Political Conservatism With A Forward-looking Attitude Toward The Role Of Women In The World. Though Neither Was A Native Of New Orleans, Both Lafcadio Hearn And Kate Chopin

Author

Richard S. Kennedy

Publisher

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807117323

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities