The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn
(1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of
Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of
urban American life in the nineteenth century, and much of this
material has not been widely available since the 1950s. Lafcadio
Hearn's America collects Hearn's stories of vagabonds, river
people, mystics, criminals, and some of the earliest accounts
available of black and ethnic urban folklife in America. He was a
frequently consulted expert on America during his years in Japan,
and these editorials reflect on the problems and possibilities of
American life as the country entered its greatest century. Hearn's
work, which reflects an America that is less "melting pot" than a
varied, spicy, and often exotic gumbo, provide essential background
for the study of America's first steps away from its agrarian
beginnings.
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