Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Southern literary studies)

by Richard S Kennedy

Richard S Kennedy (Editor)

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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.
  • ISBN10 0807117323
  • ISBN13 9780807117323
  • Publish Date 1 August 1992
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Louisiana State University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 136
  • Language English