{"product_id":"inventing-new-orleans-writings-of-lafcadio-hearn-paperback","title":"Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eS. Frederick Starr\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling his writing in such periodicals as the \u003ci\u003eNew Orleans Daily Item\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes-Democrat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScribner's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e he crystallized the way Americans view New Orleans and its south Louisiana environs. Hearn was prolific, producing colorful and vivid sketches, vignettes, news articles, essays, translations of French and Spanish literature, book reviews, short stories, and woodblock prints. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He haunted the French Quarter to cover such events as the death of Marie Laveau. His descriptions of the seamy side of New Orleans, tainted with voodoo, debauchery, and mystery made a lasting impression on the nation. Denizens of the Crescent City and devotees who flock there for escapades and pleasures will recognize these original tales of corruption, of decay and benign frivolity, and of endless partying. With his writing, Hearn virtually invented the national image of New Orleans as a kind of alternative reality to the United States as a whole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e S. Frederick Starr, a leading authority on New Orleans and Louisiana culture, edits the volume, adding an introduction that places Hearn in a social, historical, and literary context. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hearn was sensitive to the unique cultural milieu of New Orleans and Louisiana. During the decade that he spent in New Orleans, Hearn collected songs for the well-known New York music critic Henry Edward Krehbiel and extensively studied Creole French, making valuable and lasting contributions to ethnomusicology and linguistics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hearn's writings on Japan are famous and have long been available. But \u003ci\u003eInventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a selection of Hearn's nonfiction on New Orleans and Louisiana, creating a previously unavailable sampling. In these pieces Hearn, an Anglo-Greek immigrant who came to America by way of Ireland, is alternately playful, lyrical, and morbid. This gathering also features ten newly discovered sketches. Using his broad stylistic palette, Hearn conjures up a lost New Orleans which later writers such as William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams used to evoke the city as both reality and symbol.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection of writings from the author who created America's notion of New Orleans as an exotic and mysterious place\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. Frederick Starr\u003c\/b\u003e is chair of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University. His previous writings on Louisiana culture include \u003ci\u003eNew Orleans Unmasqued\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eSouthern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), and \u003ci\u003eLouis Moreau Gottschalk\u003c\/i\u003e (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.04 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752193851680,"sku":"9781578063536","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/132d71408801d91f27b91879fa6ca9c1.webp?v=1779989686","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/inventing-new-orleans-writings-of-lafcadio-hearn-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}