Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860

McNamara, Kevin R.

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Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860

Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward

. By Salvaggio, Ruth.

Baton Rouge

:

Louisiana State Univ. Press

.

2012

.

xiv

,

242 pp. Cloth

, $39.95;

e-book

, $29.95.

Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860

. By Faflik, David.

Chicago

:

Northwestern Univ. Press

.

2012

.

xii

,

374 pp. Cloth

, $79.95;

paper

, $29.95.

Kevin R. McNamara

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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 616–618.

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