Author : Grace King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807100560
Grace King of New Orleans
Grace King
Grace King Of New Orleans
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Grace King of New Orleans
Grace King
Author : Grace King
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807125199
Grace King of New Orleans by Grace King Pdf
Not as well-known as some of her contemporaries—Mark Twain, George W. Cable, and Joel Chandler Harris, to name a few—author and historian Grace King (1851–1932) was nonetheless highly praised in her own right. She garnered attention from such eminent critics as William Dean Howells, and her work frequently appeared in Harper’s and Century Magazine. She published thirteen volumes of fiction, history, biography, and memoir. What contributed to King’s critical acclaim, and her continued importance across time, was the panoramic view of social and historical New Orleans that she captured in her writing. She was, scholar Robert Bush argues, one of the most talented and perceptive citizens of New Orleans during the post–Civil War period. In pursuing an intellectual career, King broke with many Old South traditions. She embraced Anglo-Saxon and Creole French cultures. Much of her work is especially interesting for the way in which her view of the southern temper and cultural contribution supplemented that of other writers of the period. In his introduction, Bush analyzes the breadth of King’s work, leading the reader on a biographical journey that clearly establishes King as an important symbol of a bygone era. He then offers selections that cover the full range of her writing: chapters from her autobiography, Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters; her major short fiction, including five uncollected stories and the best of her Balcony Stories; a large portion of The Pleasant Ways of St. Médard, a novel about life during Reconstruction; sections from her historical writings, including New Orleans: The Place and the People; a series of biographical sketches of Mark Twain and others; excerpts from her notebooks; and a group of more than twenty letters. Grace King of New Orleans offers readers a nuanced understanding of King’s impressions of the people and places of New Orleans as well as southern life and culture.
Grace King of New Orleans
Grace Elizabeth King
Author : Grace Elizabeth King
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807100552
Grace King of New Orleans by Grace Elizabeth King Pdf
A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain's Court
Miki Pfeffer
Author : Miki Pfeffer
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780807172810
A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain's Court by Miki Pfeffer Pdf
Shortly after Grace King wrote her first stories in post-Reconstruction New Orleans, she entered a world of famous figures and literary giants greater than she could ever have imagined. Notable writers and publishers of the Northeast bolstered her career, and she began a decades-long friendship with Mark Twain and his family that was as unlikely as it was remarkable. Beginning in 1887, King paid long visits to the homes of friends and associates in New England and benefited from their extended circles. She interacted with her mentor, Charles Dudley Warner; writers Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Dean Howells; painter Frederic E. Church; suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker; Chaucer scholar Thomas Lounsbury; impresario Augustin Daly; actor Will Gillette;cleric Joseph Twichell; and other stars of the era. As compelling as a novel, this audacious story of King’s northern ties unfolds in eloquent letters. They hint at the fictional themes that would end up in her own art; they trace her development from literary novice to sophisticated businesswoman who leverages her own independence and success. Through excerpts from scores of new transcriptions, as well as contextualizing narrative and annotations, Miki Pfeffer weaves a cultural tapestry that includes King’s volatile southern family as it struggles to reclaim antebellum status and a Gilded Age northern community that ignores inevitable change. King’s correspondence with the Clemens family reveals incomparable affection. As a regular guest in their household, she quickly distinguished “Mark,” the rowdy public persona, from “Mr. Clemens,” the loving husband of Livy and father of Susy, Clara, and Jean, all of whom King came to know intimately. Their unguarded, casual revelations of heartbreaks and joys tell something more than the usual Twain lore, and they bring King into sharper focus. All of their existing letters are gathered here, many published for the first time. A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court paints a fascinating picture of the northern literary personalities who caused King’s budding career to blossom.
Creole Families of New Orleans
Grace Elizabeth King
Author : Grace Elizabeth King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : African Americans
ISBN : NYPL:33433079631358
Creole Families of New Orleans by Grace Elizabeth King Pdf
Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters
Grace King
Author : Grace King
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1589800656
Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters by Grace King Pdf
In this enchanting memoir of her life in New Orleans, Grace King depicts a world that few can imagine. From the Civil War to the Great Depression, she records the crises and changes in Crescent City society, as well as her own development as a writer. Within these pages we chance a glimpse at a portrait of a woman who went through war and its aftermath and later assumed the role of independent woman and sole breadwinner.
Grace King
Robert B. Bush
Author : Robert B. Bush
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807124877
Grace King by Robert B. Bush Pdf
The New Orleans writer Grace King was an intensely loyal daughter of the South. Fostered by bitter memories of the Civil War, her loyalty was kept burning by her family’s struggle to regain its wealth and maintain its social position during the long agony of Reconstruction. In Grace King: A Southern Destiny, Robert Bush tells of King’s life and her art, both of which she enthusiastically dedicated to the memory and welfare of her region, her city, and her family. When she began writing in 1886, it was out of a sense of anger at what she saw as George Washington Cable’s disloyalty to the South, his deliberately false portrayal of New Orleans’ Creoles and blacks. King was herself a conservative in racial matters, and a number of her stories celebrate the loyalty that she has observed freed slaves showing their former masters. But Grace King was far from conservative in her determination to earn money as a writer and to master the ideas of her era—neither endeavor considered a particularly appropriate ambition for a patrician woman of her time. She was proud to be able to contribute to her family’s income, and she developed a sharp eye for the fluctuations in the literary marketplace. In the late 1880s King worked in the local-color genre that was then in vogue. When the demand for that school of regional writing declined in the 1890s, she turned to the shorter “balcony stories” in which the details of local background were minimized. Then later in the decade, she focused her talents on writing Louisiana history after she found that publishers wanted the kind of sound, colorful work she was capable of producing. Grace King’s major accomplishments in fiction are a small number of first-rate stories and a quiet, realistic novel about New Orleans during Reconstruction—The Pleasant Ways of St. Médard. Her best historical work is New Orleans, the Place and the People. However the significance and fascination of her life lies not just in the pages of the books she wrote but also in her role as a literary champion of the South, carrying her determined views from New Orleans to New York, New England, Canada, England, and France.
Monsieur Motte
Grace Elizabeth King
Author : Grace Elizabeth King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : NYPL:33433074873617
Monsieur Motte by Grace Elizabeth King Pdf
Balcony Stories
Grace King
Author : Grace King
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0808404385
Balcony Stories by Grace King Pdf
'The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else is. It never leaves our consciousness.
Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers
Melissa Walker Heidari,Brigitte Zaugg
Author : Melissa Walker Heidari,Brigitte Zaugg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000586947
Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers by Melissa Walker Heidari,Brigitte Zaugg Pdf
The essays in this book explore the role of Grace King’s fiction in the movement of American literature from local color and realism to modernism and show that her work exposes a postbellum New Orleans that is fragmented socially, politically, and linguistically. In her introduction, Melissa Walker Heidari examines selections from King’s journals and letters as views into her journey toward a modernist aesthetic—what King describes in one passage as "the continual voyage I made." Sirpa Salenius sees King’s fiction as a challenge to dominant conceptualizations of womanhood and a reaction against female oppression and heteronormativity. In his analysis of "An Affair of the Heart," Ralph J. Poole highlights the rhetoric of excess that reveals a social satire debunking sexual and racial double standards. Ineke Bockting shows the modernist aspects of King’s fiction through a stylistic analysis which explores spatial, temporal, biological, psychological, social, and racial liminalities. Françoise Buisson demonstrates that King’s writing "is inspired by the Southern oral tradition but goes beyond it by taking on a theatrical dimension that can be quite modern and even experimental at times." Kathie Birat claims that it is important to underline King’s relationship to realism, "for the metonymic functioning of space as a signifier for social relations is an important characteristic of the realist novel." Stéphanie Durrans analyzes "The Story of a Day" as an incest narrative and focuses on King’s development of a modernist aesthetics to serve her terrifying investigation into social ills as she probes the inner world of her silent character. Amy Doherty Mohr explores intersections between regionalism and modernism in public and silenced histories, as well as King’s treatment of myth and mobility. Brigitte Zaugg examines in "The Little Convent Girl" King’s presentation of the figure of the double and the issue of language as well as the narrative voice, which, she argues, "definitely inscribes the text, with its understatement, economy and quiet symbolism, in the modernist tradition." Miki Pfeffer closes the collection with an afterword in which she offers excerpts from King’s letters as encouragement for "scholars to seek Grace King as a primary source," arguing that "Grace King’s own words seem best able to dialogue with the critical readings herein." Each of these essays enables us to see King’s place in the construction of modernity; each illuminates the "continual voyage" that King made.
New Orleans
Grace King
Author : Grace King
Publisher : Cornerstone Book Publishers
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1613420005
New Orleans by Grace King Pdf
Photographic reproduction of Grace King's classic 1917 account of New Orleans and some of the people who made it great. Illustrated.
Finding Grace and Grit
Khristeena Lute
Author : Khristeena Lute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099796877X
Finding Grace and Grit by Khristeena Lute Pdf
In her debut novel, Finding Grace and Grit, Khristeena Lute shows how Meredith and Grace risk poverty and social suicide as they carve daringly different futures than the ones society had prescribed.
Monsieur Motte
Grace Elizabeth King
Author : Grace Elizabeth King
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019816554
Monsieur Motte by Grace Elizabeth King Pdf
Set in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Monsieur Motte is a gripping tale of love, betrayal, and redemption. Grace Elizabeth King weaves together history and fiction, painting a vivid portrait of a city haunted by its past and struggling to find its footing in a rapidly changing world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Louisiana Women
Janet Allured,Judith F. Gentry
Author : Janet Allured,Judith F. Gentry
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820329468
Louisiana Women by Janet Allured,Judith F. Gentry Pdf
Moving chronologically from the colonial period to the present, this collection of seventeen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in the state. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, the contributors look at ways in which the women they profile either abided by prevailing gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves and other women.Louisiana Womenconcludes with an essay that examines women's active responses to problems that emerged in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The women whose absorbing life stories are collected here include Marie Therese Coincoin, who was born a slave but later became a successful entrepreneur, and Oretha Castle Haley, civil rights activist and leader of the New Orleans chapter of CORE. From such well-known figures as author Kate Chopin and Voudou priestess Marie Laveau, to lesser known women such as Cajun musician Cleoma Breaux Falcon, this volume reveals a compelling cross section of historical figures. The women profiled vary by race, class, political affiliation, and religious persuasion, but they all share an unusual grit and determination that allowed them to turn trying circumstances into opportunity. Lively yet rigorous, these essays introduce readers to the courageous, dedicated, and inventive women who have been an essential part of Louisiana's history. Historical figures included: Marie Th?r?se Coincoin The Baroness Pontalba Marie Laveau Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone Eliza Jane Nicholson Kate Chopin Grace King Louisa Williams Robinson, Her Daughters, and Her Granddaughters Clementine Hunter Dorothy Dix True Methodist Women Cleoma Breaux Falcon Caroline Dormon Mary Land Rowena Spencer Oretha Castle Haley Louisiana Women and Hurricane Katrina
Louisiana Stories
Forkner, Ben
Author : Forkner, Ben
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145560786X
Louisiana Stories by Forkner, Ben Pdf
"An illuminating, and at the same time, thoroughly entertaining compilation, Louisiana Stories is enhanced by an introductory essay that is a contribution not only to the literary history of the state but also of the South." Lewis P. Simpson, former professor of English at Louisiana State University and editor of The Southern Review. Southern writers have always excelled in the short story form. Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Peter Taylor are the yardsticks by which short story writers are judged not only within the realm of Southern literature but also within that of American literature. By compiling an impressive array of stories by many of the Deep South's finest writers, anthologist Ben Forkner demonstrates how Louisianans in particular have influenced the development of the short story. Forkner writes in his insightful introductory essay: "These same native Louisiana stories manage to announce the central themes of modern Southern fiction more emphatically, and earlier, than the writing of any other single Southern region."Included in this compilation are works by Henry Clay Lewis, George Washington Cable, Lafcadio Hearn, Grace King, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Lyle Saxon, Arna Bontemps, Zora Neale Hurston, E.P. O'Donnell, Shirley Ann Grau, Ernest Gaines, Andre Dubus, James Lee Burke, Robb Forman Dew, and John William Corrington.Ben Forkner is the director of the English department at the University of Angers in France where he teaches American and Irish literature. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has co-edited three anthologies of Southern literature, Stories of the Modern South , AModern Southern Reader, and Stories of the Old South .