The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of urban American life in the nineteenth century, and much of this material has not been widely available since the 1950s. Lafcadio Hearn’s America collects Hearn’s stories of vagabonds, river people, mystics, criminals, and some of the earliest accounts available of black and ethnic urban folklife in America. He was a frequently consulted expert on America during his years in Japan, and these editorials reflect on the problems and possibilities of American life as the country entered its greatest century. Hearn’s work, which reflects an America that is less ‚melting pot‘ than a varied, spicy, and often exotic gumbo, provide essential background for the study of America’s first steps away from its agrarian beginnings.
Simon J. Bronner
Lafcadio Hearn’s America
Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials
Lafcadio Hearn’s America
Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 256 ● ISBN 9780813189239 ● Dateigröße 0.9 MB ● Herausgeber Simon J. Bronner ● Verlag The University Press of Kentucky ● Ort Lexington ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2021 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7910661 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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