Inventing New Orleans Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

Name: Inventing New Orleans Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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ISBN: 9781578063536

ISBN-10: 1578063531

ISBN-13: 9781578063536

Edition: 2001

Authors: S. Frederick Starr

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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Man Who Invented New Orleans



The Outsider as Insider: Impressions


Memphis to New Orleans


At the Gate of the Tropics


The City of the South


The Streets


The French Market


Los Criollos


New Orleans in Wet Weather


New Orleans Letter


New Orleans in Carnival Garb


The Last of the New Orleans Fencing Masters


Under the Oaks


Executions


The Creole Doctor: Some Curiosities of Medicine in Louisiana


The Death of Marie Laveau


St. John's Eve--Voudouism


The Last of the Voudoos


The Garden of Paradise


Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana


Rod and Gun



From the Land of Dreams: Sketches


Voices of Dawn


Char-Coal


The Flower Sellers


Cakes and Candy


Washerwomen


Des Perches


Shine?


The Man with the Small Electric Machine


Under the Electric Light


__ __! __ __!! Mosquitoes!!!


The Festive


The Wolfish Dog


The Go-at


The Alligators


Wet Enough For You?


Web-Footed


A Creole Type


Complaint of a Creole Boarding-House Keeper


The Boarder's Reply


A Kentucky Colonel Renting Rooms


The Restless Boarder


Furnished Rooms


Ghosteses


A Creole Journal


Ultra-Canal


An Ultra-Canal Talk


Why Crabs Are Boiled Alive


Creole Servant Girls


The Creole Character


All Saints!


Does Climate Affect the Character of People?


The City of Dreams


A Dream of Kites


The Tale of a Fan


Les Coulisses (The French Opera)


French Opera


Down Among the Dives: A Midnight Sketch


Fire!


That Piano Organ


A Creole Courtyard


The Accursed Fig Tree


Home


A Visitor


Opening Oysters


By the Murmuring Waves


Spanish Moss


The Lord Sends Trials and Tribulations to Strengthen and Pacify Our Hearts


Ye Pilot



Of Vices and Virtues: Editorials


Latin and Anglo-Saxon


French in Louisiana


Jewish Emigrants for Louisiana


Quack! Quack!


The Opium Dens


Scenes de la Vie des Hoodlums


Blackmailing


The Indignant Dead


Improved Police Ideas


Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before


A Visit to New Orleans


Whited Sepulchres


Old-Fashioned Houses


La Douane


The Haunted and the Haunters


The Unspeakable Velocipede


The Organ Grinder


The Puller of Noses


The Glamour of New Orleans


The Dawn of the Carnival


The Pelican's Ghost



Reports from the Field: Longer Studies


La Cuisine Creole


Gombo Zhebes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects


Notes on Sources