Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana (Paperback)

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitie et devouement, ou Trois mois a la Louisiane, or Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a moralizing, educational travelogue meant for a young adult readership of the time. Lebrun's novel is one of the few perspectives we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and white supremacy in France's former Louisiana colony. E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a translation, an accessible introduction, extensive endnote annotations, and period illustrations. After a short preface meant to educate young readers about the geography, culture, and history of the southern reaches of the Louisiana Purchase, the novel tells the tale of two teenaged, orphaned Americans, Hortense Melvil and Valentine Arnold. The two young women, who characterize one another as "sisters," have spent the majority of their lives in a Parisian boarding school and return to Louisiana to begin their adult lives. Almost immediately upon arrival in New Orleans, their close friendship faces existential threats: grave illness in the form of yellow fever, the prospect of marriage separating the two, and powerful discrimination in the form of racial prejudice and segregation.

General

Imprint:	University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Banner Books
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Camille Lebrun • E. Joe Johnson • Robin Anita White
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	150
ISBN-13:	978-1-4968-3639-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > History > History of other lands Promotions
LSN:	1-4968-3639-1
Barcode:	9781496836397

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