The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City ItemDelia LaBarre LSU Press, 2007 - 232 pagine Lafcadio Hearn (1850--1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised and amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block "cartoons" and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, political, whimsical, and moral. This delightful book collects in their entirety, for the first time, all of the extant satirical columns and woodcut illustrations published in the Daily City Item -- 181 columns in all. Hearn displays immense range, illuminating in words and prints the unique culture of New Orleans, including its Creole history, debauched underworld, corrupt politicians, and voudou practitioners. The columns are expertly annotated by Delia LaBarre, who places them in their unique Crescent City context. |
Sommario
xi | |
xiii | |
Editorial Note | lii |
The Haunted and the Haunters | 1 |
Free Board and Lodging for Thieves | 2 |
The Delivering Angel | 3 |
The Ideal Commissioner | 4 |
Frank J Mumford | 5 |
Murder and Violence | 67 |
Rowdyism Suppressed | 68 |
Not a Dream at All | 69 |
The Witch | 70 |
Des Perches | 71 |
Washerwomen | 72 |
Sons of the Sea | 73 |
A Small Nuisance | 74 |
Mumford of Ours | 6 |
Dog Days | 7 |
The Devil on Carondelet Street | 8 |
Exthract from the Spach ov Paddy Whack | 9 |
The Tropical Palm | 10 |
Away Away | 11 |
The Smile That Johnson Smole | 12 |
Military Salutes | 13 |
Illustrated Letters from the People June 24 | 15 |
Boots | 16 |
The Last of Tilden and the Last of Grant | 17 |
The Unspeakable Velocipede | 18 |
The Bicycle Fiends Defense | 20 |
The Organ Grinder | 21 |
I Know YOULL Give Me One | 22 |
The Nurse Maid | 23 |
My Office in My Hat | 24 |
Feminine Intolerance | 25 |
Hancock and English | 27 |
Morning CallsVery Early | 28 |
The Goat | 29 |
Oakland Park Scenery | 30 |
Forty Fights to a Dance | 31 |
CitizenExecutioner Sherman | 32 |
In the Vise | 33 |
Illustrated Letters from the People July 12 | 34 |
The Last Shake of the Bloody Shirt | 35 |
How They Do It | 36 |
The Wolfish Dog | 37 |
Street Car Nuisances | 38 |
Dr Tanner July 18 | 39 |
Shine? | 40 |
Mischievous Boys | 41 |
Illustrated Letters from the People July 22 | 42 |
The Banana Curse | 43 |
Dr Tanner July 24 | 44 |
Dr Tanners Present Aspect | 45 |
The Direful Boost | 46 |
Mosquitoes | 47 |
House Hunting Nuisance | 48 |
Attention Rowdies | 49 |
Taxpayers Catechism | 50 |
The Fatal Plunge | 51 |
Illustrated Letters from the People August 4 | 52 |
Ins and Outs | 53 |
Under the Electric Light | 54 |
Slams the Door on the Undertakers Nose | 55 |
Seeking a Sensation | 56 |
LakeSide Lickings | 58 |
Sarah Bernhardt | 59 |
Voluntary Contributions | 60 |
Jewells Defence of Garfield | 61 |
Hunting for the Honest Eight | 62 |
Ghosteses | 63 |
Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before | 64 |
The Chinese Vice | 65 |
Catankarous | 66 |
The Milkman | 75 |
Prickly Heat | 76 |
The HandMaiden | 77 |
DandyTraps | 78 |
Contraband | 79 |
Whited Sepulchres | 80 |
Dead Sea Fruit | 81 |
The FlowerSellers | 82 |
The Man with the Small Electric Machine | 83 |
The Police Board | 84 |
The Vendor of Wisdom | 86 |
The Curse of the Newspaper Vendor | 87 |
At the Photographers | 88 |
Cakes and Candy | 89 |
The Puller of Noses | 90 |
Ye Pilot | 91 |
Frantic Appeals for Help | 92 |
Police Efficiency | 93 |
The Master Spirit | 94 |
The Police Mutual Aid Society | 95 |
You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Choice | 97 |
The Great Eastern | 98 |
That Verdict | 99 |
Poney Up | 100 |
Statement of a Victim | 101 |
That Villainous Broker | 102 |
Improved Police Ideas | 103 |
Nothing like SelfEsteem | 104 |
Scourged to the Ballot | 105 |
The Festive | 106 |
Aïda | 107 |
Not 329 but 350 | 109 |
Youthful Smokers | 110 |
Spanish Moss | 111 |
Fire | 112 |
All Saints | 113 |
Dreams of the Ballet | 114 |
French Opera | 115 |
The Shooting Season | 116 |
Une Première Danseuse | 117 |
Recollections of the Theatrical Season | 118 |
Jourdan | 119 |
The Bone of Contention | 120 |
Gossi | 121 |
Something to Be Proud Of | 122 |
British Recollections of New Orleans | 123 |
An Artful Dodger | 124 |
Oft in the Stilly Night Etc | 125 |
Ugh | 126 |
Moral Edification | 127 |
Tantalizing | 128 |
Wont Wait Till the Holidays | 129 |
The Inundations | 130 |
Notes on Columns | 131 |
Bibliography | 171 |
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