Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Southern Literary Studies)

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pp. 91, SIGNED by the editor, “This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers — George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin — as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City “home” at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy. In the book’s final essay, Lewis P. Simpson reflects on the history of New Orleans as a literary center, giving special emphasis to Percy’s The Moviegoer and John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces.”

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ISBN 807117323
Published Date 1992
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition Very Good
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication U.S.A.
Edition First Edition
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pp. 91, SIGNED by the editor, “This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers — George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin — as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City “home” at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy. In the book’s final essay, Lewis P. Simpson reflects on the history of New Orleans as a literary center, giving special emphasis to Percy’s The Moviegoer and John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces.”

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Weight 0.85 kg