Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana - Couverture souple

Lebrun, Camille

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496836391 ISBN 13 : 9781496836397

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Synopsis

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805–1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitié et dévouement, ou Trois mois à la Louisiane, or Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a moralizing, educational travelogue meant for a young adult readership of the time. Lebrun’s novel is one of the few perspectives we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and white supremacy in France’s former Louisiana colony.

E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a translation, an accessible introduction, extensive endnote annotations, and period illustrations. After a short preface meant to educate young readers about the geography, culture, and history of the southern reaches of the Louisiana Purchase, the novel tells the tale of two teenaged, orphaned Americans, Hortense Melvil and Valentine Arnold. The two young women, who characterize one another as “sisters,” have spent the majority of their lives in a Parisian boarding school and return to Louisiana to begin their adult lives. Almost immediately upon arrival in New Orleans, their close friendship faces existential threats: grave illness in the form of yellow fever, the prospect of marriage separating the two, and powerful discrimination in the form of racial prejudice and segregation.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Camille Lebrun (1805-1886), the preferred nom de plume of Pauline Guyot, was a French writer of novels, short stories, educational books, translated works, and numerous articles. Some of her works ran to multiple editions and appeared in publication until the end of the nineteenth century.

E. Joe Johnson is professor of foreign languages at Clayton State University. He is general editor of XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, the annual journal of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496836391
• ISBN 13: 9781496836397
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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