Literary New Orleans in the modern world
By: edited by Richard S. Kennedy.
Contributors: Kennedy, Richard S.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: American literature -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.; New Orleans (La.) -- Intellectual life.; New Orleans (La.) -- In literature.
Description: These essays explore the belletristic Crescent City - its history, authors, myths, and realities. This volume focuses on twentieth-century New Orleans, beginning with modernism's brief blooming in the 1920s, followed by the fading of New Orleans' peculiarly dreamy romanticism and the flourishing of a distinctive realism, and concluding with a recurrence and transformation of the earlier romantic strain in contemporary Gothic and mystery fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.