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

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807122734
• ISBN13: 9780807122730
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"