The Grandissimes

A Story of Creole Life

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George Washington Cable

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Setting forth formidable arguments for racial equality, Cable's novel of feuding Creole families in early nineteenth-century New Orleans blends post-Civil War social dissent and Romanticism.

Author Biography:

Born in New Orleans in 1844, George Washington Cable began his writing career as a columnist and reporter for local newspapers. A talent scout from Scribner's Monthly"discovered" the writer, and the nation's appetite for the exotic scenes and characters of the remnants of Creole civilization helped to make him popular. His first collection of Creole tales, Old Creole Days, was hailed as the equal of Hawthorne's tales of New England; Cable's first novel, The Grandissimes, was constantly in print during his lifetime. He died in 1925. Michael Kreyling is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Southern literature and American literature. He has written two books- a study of the fiction of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty's Achievement of Order, and a literary-cultural study of Southern fiction from the 1820s to the 1970s, Figures of the Hero in Southern Narrative.

Release date Australia

December 1st, 1988

Author

George Washington Cable

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Michael Kreyling

Pages

368

Dimensions

130x198x20

ISBN-13

9780140433227

Product ID

14540631

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