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- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Library of Southern civilization
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2022).
- Contents
- Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: WHITMAN ON THE LEVEE -- PRELUDE: EXCERPTS FROM A TRAVELLER'S NOTE BOOK -- Crossing the Alleghanies -- Cincinnati and Louisville -- Western Steamboats-The Ohio -- The Mississippi at Midnight -- SKETCHES OF NEW ORLEANS -- Novelties in New Orleans -- Firemen Celebration -- The Sabbath -- Daguerreotype Portraits -- "The Season," Hereabouts -- Mardi Gras -- The Habitants of Hotels -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Peter Funk, Esq -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Miss Dusky Grisette -- Celebration of St. Patrick's Day
- Hebrew Benevolent Association Ball -- Health and Cleanliness -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Daggerdraw Bowieknife, Esq -- New Orleans Sabbath Recreations -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: John J. Jinglebrain -- The Nights of New Orleans -- In the Wrong Box -- Serious but Ludicrous Accident -- New Orleans in Mud -- Razors, Reason, and Resolution -- Visit of a Distinguished Personage -- Non-Ascension of the Balloon -- Who Shall Wear Motley? -- Day after the Election! -- Strangers, Beware! -- The Balloon Blow Up -- Bouquets -- Lafayette Square -- Vagrants -- The Old Cathedral
- The "News Boys." A Street Conversation -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Timothy Goujon, V.O.N.O. -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Mrs. Giddy Gay Butterfly -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Patrick McDray -- A Walk about Town: By a Pedestrian -- To the Seekers of Pleasure -- Carrollton -- Steam Stronger Than Shot -- A Sabbath Sketch: Or, Going to and Coming from Church -- Public Squares -- A Night at the Terpsichore Ball: By "You Know Who" -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Doctor Sangrado Snipes -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Old Benjamin Broekindown
- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Samuel Sensitive, Part I -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Samuel Sensitive, Part II -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Miss Virginity Roseblossom -- Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee: Ephraim Broadhorn. A Flatboatman from Kentucky -- EPILOGUE: MEMORIES OF NEW ORLEANS -- Manuscript Fragment about New Orleans (ca. 1848, with Later Additions) -- New Orleans in 1848 (New Orleans Picayune, January 25, 1887 -- Calamus Leaves (Manuscript) -- APPENDIX A: LETTERS FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON ("JEFF") WHITMAN TO HIS FAMILY
- Mid-February: Trip to New Orleans and First Impressions -- March 14: Employment at the Crescent and City Perambulations -- March 27: Daily Life -- April 23: Sickness and Home-Sickness -- APPENDIX B: ADDITIONAL EDITORIALS -- Model Artists -- General Taylor at the Theatre -- A Question of Propriety -- University Studies -- NOTES -- WHITMAN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY UNTIL 1848 -- RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING -- INDEX
- ISBN
- 9780807177242
- 0807177245
- 9780807177235
- 0807177237
- LCCN
- 2021024322
- OCLC
- 2021024322
- Author
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Title
Walt Whitman's New Orleans : sidewalk sketches and newspaper rambles / edited, with an introduction, by Stefan Schöberlein.
- Publisher
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Library of Southern civilization
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2022).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Schöberlein, Stefan, editor.
EBSCOhost
- Other Form:
Print version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Walt Whitman's New Orleans Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022] 9780807176825 (DLC) 2021024321