Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by Fertel, Rien
Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by Fertel, Rien

Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New...
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Author: Rien Fertel
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Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by Fertel, Rien

Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

$135.73
Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by Fertel, Rien

Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

$135.73
Author: Rien Fertel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America's golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output --histories and novels, poetry and plays--that white Creoles used to imagine themselves as a unified community of writers and readers.

Rien Fertel argues that Charles Gayarré's English-language histories of Louisiana, which emphasized the state's dual connection to America and to France, provided the foundation of a white Creole print culture predicated on Louisiana's exceptionalism. The writings of authors like Grace King, Adrien Rouquette, and Alfred Mercier consciously fostered an image of Louisiana as a particular social space, and of themselves as the true inheritors of its history and culture. In turn, the forging of this white Creole identity created a close-knit community of cosmopolitan Creole elites, who reviewed each other's books, attended the same salons, crusaded against the popular fiction of George Washington Cable, and worked together to preserve the French language in local and state governmental institutions. Together they reimagined the definition of "Creole" and used it as a marker of status and power.

By the end of this group's era of cultural prominence, Creole exceptionalism had become a cornerstone in the myth of Louisiana in general and of New Orleans in particular. In defining themselves, the authors in the white Creole print community also fashioned a literary identity that resonates even today.

Author: Rien Fertel
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 11/17/2014
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.43w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780807158234

About the Author
Rien Fertel writes, teaches, and lives in and about the South. His books include Imagining the Creole City, The One True Barbecue, and, most recently, Southern Rock Opera. He authors the Lost Lit column for 64 Parishes and regularly writes book reviews for the Wall Street Journal and other publications. He is currently writing a book on Pelicans for LSU Press
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