Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813122298)

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 f

Author: Simon J. Bronner
ISBN-10: 0813122295
ISBN-13: 9780813122298
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2002
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.38w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 278