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):

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

Social classes.

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

Ethnology.

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

United States.

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

United States--Description and travel--Anecdotes.

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

Hearn, Lafcadio.

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Language Note:

English

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 th

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Lafcadio Hearn's America; PART I: COMMUNITIES AND THE ""UNDER SIDE"" OF AMERICA; 1. Levee Life: Haunts and Pastimes of the Roustabouts; 2. Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana; 3. Sicilians in New Orleans; 4. The Last of the New Orleans Fencing-Masters; 5. A Gypsy Camp; 6. Some Pictures of Poverty: Impressions of a Round with an Overseer of the Poor; 7. Pariah People: Outcast Life by Night in the East End; 8. Les Chiffonniers: How They Live, Work and Have Their Being

9. Within the Bars: How Prisoners Look, Live, and Conduct ThemselvesThe County Jail; The Prisoners; Inside the Cells; Men Ought to Grow Fat; Individual Habits; Fine Art; Literature; Bond, the Tomahawker; Other Newspaper Familiars; The Health of the Imprisoned; Keeping Them Clean; Air and Water; Outside Friends; Escape; 10. Cincinnati Salamanders: A Confederation of Twenty Little Communities; 11. Steeple Climbers; PART II: ""ENORMOUS AND LURID FACTS"": LANGUAGE, FOLKLIFE, AND CULTURE; 12. Cheek; 13. The Creole Patois; 14. The Creole Doctor; 15. The Last of the Voudoos

16. New Orleans Superstitions17. The Music of the Masses; 18. Black Varieties: The Minstrels of the Row; 19. Among the Spirits: An Enquirer Reporter Communicates with His Father; 20. Some Strange Experience: The Reminiscences of a Ghost-Seer; 21. Haceldama: Hebrew Slaughterers, Gentile Butchers, and Consumptive Blood-Drinkers; 22. The Manufacture of Yellow and Rockingham Ware in Cincinnati; PART III: OPINIONS OF AMERICA; 23. Growth of Population in America; 24. The Labour Problem in America; 25. The Race-Problem in America; 26. Some Japanese Ideas of American Policy

27. Prevention of Cruelty to Women28. Recent American Novels; 29. American Magazines; 30. American Art Tastes; 31. The French in Louisiana; 32. The Roar of a Great City; Bibliography; Sources of the Essays; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-233).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813189239

0813189233

9780813156354

0813156351

9780813170466

081317046X

OCLC:

65196342