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Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials

Simon J. Bronner

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The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn 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 f

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: February 15, 2002

ISBN 13: 9780813122298

Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials

Simon J. Bronner

0/5 ( ratings)

The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn 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 f

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: February 15, 2002

ISBN 13: 9780813122298

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