Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0058821

Zusammenfassung

The project investigates the strategy of "pastifying" French Americans (Creoles) and French-American culture in selected illustrated fictional and non-fictional texts about New Orleans (travel writing, short fiction, serialized novels, and historical essays) from one of the leading 19th-century American periodicals, Scribner's Monthly/The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. The project's goals are fourfold: first, while previous research on these texts has largely ignored their periodical origins or has merely placed individual texts in the context of the magazine, "Scribner's Illust...