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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fertel, Rien, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature and society--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Literature and society.

New Orleans (La.)--Intellectual life.

New Orleans (La.).

New Orleans (La.)--In literature.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Physical Description:

ix, 203 pages, 4 pages of unnumbered plates : portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780807158234

0807158232

OCLC:

880499944