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Author Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Title Lafcadio Hearn's America : ethnographic sketches and editorials / edited by Simon J. Bronner.

Publication Info. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233).
Contents pt. 1. Communities and the "under side" of America. 1. Levee life : haunts and pastimes of the roustabouts -- 2. Saint Malo : a lacrustine village in Louisiana -- 3. Sicilians in New Orleans -- 4. Last of the New Orleans fencing-masters -- 5. A gypsy camp -- 6. Some pictures of poverty : impressions of a round with an overseer of the poor -- 7. Pariah people : outcast life by night in the East End -- 8. Les chiffonniers : how they live, work and have their being -- 9. Within the bars : how prisoners look, live, and conduct themselves -- 10. Cincinnati salamanders : a confederation of twenty little communities -- 11. Steeple climbers -- pt. 2. "Enormous and lurid facts" : language, folklife, and culture. 12. Cheek -- 13. Creole patois -- 14. Creole doctor -- 15. Last of the voudoos -- 16. New Orleans superstitions -- 17. Music of the masses -- 18. Black varieties : the minstrels of the row -- 19. Among the spirits : an Enquirer reporter communicates with his father -- 20. Some strange experience : the reminiscences of a ghost-seer -- 21. Haceldama : Hebrew slaughterers, gentile butchers, and consumptive blood-drinkers -- 22. Manufacture of yellow and Rockingham ware in Cincinnati -- pt. 3. Opinions of America. 23. Growth of population in America -- 24. Labour problem in America -- 25. Race-problem in America -- 26. Some Japanese ideas of American policy -- 27. Prevention of cruelty to women -- 28. Recent American novels -- 29. American magazines -- 30. American art tastes -- 31. French in Louisiana -- 32. Roar of a great city.
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Subject Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 -- Homes and haunts -- Anecdotes.
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Subject Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 -- Political and social views.
Political and social views.
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
United States.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918 -- Anecdotes.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 1865-1918
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Anecdotes.
Social conditions.
Ethnology -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
Ethnology.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Social classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
Social classes.
Chronological Term 1800-1918
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Anecdotes.
Added Author Bronner, Simon J.
Added Title America
Other Form: Print version: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904. Lafcadio Hearn's America. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2002 0813122295 (DLC) 2001002585 (OCoLC)46952394
ISBN 081317046X (electronic book)
9780813170466 (electronic book)
9780813156354
0813156351
0813122295 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780813122298 (cloth ; acid-free paper)