Three hundred years of decadence : New Orleans literature and the transatlantic world /
New Orleans's reputation as a decadent city stems in part from its environmental precariousness, its Francophilia, its Afro-Caribbean connections, its Catholicism, and its litany of alleged 'vices, ' encompassing prostitution, miscegenation, homosexuality, and any number of the seven...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. New Orleans Decadence in Theory; 2. Colonial New Orleans, Beginnings to 1803; 3. American New Orleans, 1803 to 1865; 4. The Civil War to the Fin de Siècle, 1865 to 1900; 5. The Fin de Siècle to World War II, 1900 to 1945; 6. World War II to Hurricane Katrina, 1945 to 2005; 7. New Orleans after Katrina, 2005 to the Present; 8. The Decadent Future of New Orleans in Literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index
