Literary Cincinnati : the missing chapter / Dale Patrick Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Dale Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary landmarks--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Literary landmarks.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Authors, American.

City and town life in literature.

Cincinnati (Ohio)--Intellectual life.

Cincinnati (Ohio).

Cincinnati (Ohio)--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets. In addition to hosting the nation's first professional baseball team, the Tall Stacks river boating, and the May Festival, there's another side to the city--one that includes some of the most famous names and organizations in American letters. Literary Cincinnati fills in this missing chapter, taking the reader on a joyous ride with some of the great literary personalities who have shaped life in the Queen City. Meet the young Samuel Clemens working in a local print shop, Fanny Trollope struggling to open her bizarre bazaar, Sinclair Lewis researching Babbitt, hairdresser Eliza Potter telling the secrets of her rich clientele, and many more who defined the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Queen City. For lovers of literature everywhere--but especially in Cincinnati--this is a literary tour that will entertain, inform, and amuse. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: A Trollope! A Trollope!; Chapter Two: Buckeyes, Semi-Colons, and Other Literati; Chapter Three: The Little Woman Who Wrote the Book; Chapter Four: Leases, Lectures, and a Library; Chapter Five: Readers and Publishers; Chapter Six: A Poem in the Picture; Chapter Seven: The Poet Sisters; Chapter Eight: The Father of the Queen; Chapter Nine: Two Tales of a City; Chapter Ten: Ones Coming with Papers; Chapter Eleven: J. B. Pond's Servant; Chapter Twelve: The Dean and the Queen; Chapter Thirteen: A Hairdresser Telling All

Chapter Fourteen: The New JournalistChapter Fifteen: A Good One; Chapter Sixteen: Heretic at Cincinnati; Chapter Seventeen: Babbittry; Chapter Eighteen: The Poet Laureate of Greeting Cards; Chapter Nineteen: Another Spring, Another Poet; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821444238

0821444239

OCLC:

769188973