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Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century First Edition – Second Impression Edition
Author(s): Thomas Ruys Smith (Author)
- Publisher: Continuum
- Publication Date: 2 Jun. 2011
- Edition: First Edition – Second Impression
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847251935
- ISBN-13: 9781847251930
Book Description
New Orleans occupies a singular position within American life. Drawing deeply from Old World traditions and New World possibilities, the port city of the Mississippi has proved a lure to an extraordinary variety of travellers from its very earliest days. New Orleans has always been a world city like no other: it combines the magnolia and moonlight appeal of Southern romanticism, a popular sense of exoticism and decadence, the hint of illicit sex, and a cultural history without compare. However, alongside the glamour there runs another story – of tension, conflict, hardship and destruction.
Editorial Reviews
Review
…[an] important new study… Ruys Smith deserves credit for this clear-signed and judicious survey of its most complex and fascinating century. –The Times Higher Education Supplement
About the Author
Thomas Ruys Smith is a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain (2007), and the editor of Blacklegs, Card Sharps and Confidence Men: Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories (2010), both published by Louisiana State University Press.
