Lafcadio Hearn's America : ethnographic sketches and editorials / edited by Simon J. Bronner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Contributor:

Bronner, Simon J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Political and social views.

Social classes.

History.

Ethnology.

Social conditions.

Manners and customs.

United States--Description and travel--Anecdotes.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918--Anecdotes.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918--Anecdotes.

Ethnology--United States--History--19th century--Anecdotes.

Social classes--United States--History--19th century--Anecdotes.

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904--Homes and haunts--Anecdotes.

Hearn, Lafcadio.

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904--Political and social views.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

America

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2002]

Summary:

The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of urban American life in the nineteenth century, and much of this material has not been widely available since the 1950s.

Lafcadio Hearn's America collects Hearn's stories of vagabonds, river people, mystics, criminals, and some of the earliest accounts available of black and ethnic urban folklife in America. He was a frequently consulted expert on America during his years in Japan, and these editorials reflect on the problems and possibilities of American life as the country entered its greatest century.

Hearn's work, which reflects an America that is less "melting pot" than a varied, spicy, and often exotic gumbo, provides an essential background for the study of America's first steps away from its agrarian beginnings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0813122295

OCLC:

46952394