The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New Orleans
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 13 August 2026
- 03 September 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009645355
- 9781009645362
- 9781009645348
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.49kg, 260 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.427kg, 260 Pages
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Book description
This Cambridge Companion offers a rich range of contexts for studying the literary histories of New Orleans. Some of the essays offer a deep focus on the significance of iconic figures such as Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, and Kate Chopin. Other essays detail long traditions of writing not widely known beyond the city but that complicate our understanding of American literary history in new ways, as in the chapters on queer writers or Mardi Gras or the Asian presence in the city's literary imagination or how deadly nineteenth-century epidemics continue to shape the ways the world has come to read the city as a capital of Gothic horror fiction. These fresh perspectives on one of the most storied cities in the world are an essential resource for those who seek to piece together their own understanding of New Orleans as an historic and living flashpoint in the global literary imagination.
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