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The importance of New Orleans in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on New Orleans-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 500 works of fiction significantly set in New Orleans and published between 1836 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction-as well as literary fiction-are included.

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This guide will help librarians and scholars find novels and short story collections set in New Orleans, which are 80 pages or more and were published before 1981. Entries are alphabetical by author. Detailed annotations are given for works published from 1828 to 1980; bibliographic information is given for works dating from 1981 through 2013 in an appendix. The book also includes about 70 pages of author biographies, plus a chronological list of titles. The book was created by consulting libraries with collections of New Orleans fiction, as well as online and published bibliographies that offer a subject approach to fiction. protoview.com

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James A. Kaser is professor and archivist at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Washington, D.C. of Fiction: A Research Guide (Scarecrow, 2006) and The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide (Scarecrow, 2011).

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