Merrilee Cunningham, PhD.
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Humanities 4390 is an enrichment course for those interested in Southern Regionalism and its arts, crafts and literature. We will not only study fine arts, but we will also look at regional metalsmithing, pottery, woodworking, design, drawings and painting, particularly as they relate to political movements such as Louisiana Populism, the cultures of captured peoples, and the intersection of African, Jamaican, Spanish, French, American and English traditions.

"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one;
Take honor from me and my life is done."

King Richard II, William Shakespeare

By the end of the course, the student should:

1. have developed further critical reading and analytic skills by reading historical reports, novels, short stories, diaries and letters pertaining to life in New Orleans.

2. be able to trace the development of modes and styles of art, architecture and literature chronologically.

3. increase our understanding and familiarity with the artistic works of the different peoples of the city including the Spanish, French, free people of color as well as captured peoples, and Americans with English origins.

4. comprehend the complexities of the psychological, ,historical, neo-historical, feminist new social criticism, and postmodernism as they relate to our study of the city as urban community., sacred and profane space, and in relation to rural and plantation cultures.

5. learn to read and analyze individual literary texts as well as the symbology of paintings, pottery, architecture, and metalwork.

6. improve writing and analytic skills, particularly the skill of writing critical analyses in essay form, using the conventions of the university academic community.

7. demonstrate how to write cogent, extended library interpretations incorporating critical sources acquired through library research as well as first hand research available through the trip component. This research must be documented correctly and adequately using the MLA style of documentation.

Criteria:

1. Appropriateness of response to the topic(If the essay does not address the top the grade is 0).

2. Appropriateness and strength of specific proofs and facts related to the theories and claims asserted.

3. Originality of essay.

4. Grammatical Correctness

5. Clarity and rhetorical level of writing style

6. Detailed textual evidence used in essay

7. Conceptual sophisication of essay

8. Adherence to the conventions of academic writing, including thesis, organization, proofs, structure.

9. Use of correct documentation for secondary sources.

Grades& Grading System:
900 - 100 = A Excellent college-level work
800 - 899 = B Good college-level work
700 - 799 = C Adequate college-level work
650 - 699 = D Poor College-level work
    0 - 649 = F Failing Work outside acceptable college-level standards
    0          =  No work submitted

The midterm examination will consist of short answer and short essay questions. Before the exam I will hand you a review sheet and study questions. Essay responses should be organized clearly with a thesis, support the answer with a variety of relevant specific references to the readings, and demonstrate your sill in critical reading and thinking.

Annotated Bibliography for the Long Paper - 50 points

This is due one week before the research paper and will illustrate an understanding of the state of research on your subject.

An extended study, due at the end of the semester, the ticket to entrance into the final examination, but due the week before the final exam, this is a serious piece of scholarship for the course.

Since this course is a UHD enrichment course with a trip component, and since itineraries of the trip and elements of the course itself are personalized according to the research interests of the students, a course journal is in order here. Due after our return from New Orleans, it will function as a hind of chapbook or horn book for the course, allowing the student to illustrate the development of his or her studies in a particular aspect of the culture of the city. It should also convince a student of the limited time which that student is going to have to see what he or she has studied and to use the city as a kind of laboratory for the student's own studies of art, literature, architecture, music lyrics, painting and crafts.

1. The Gay Detective in New Orleans Detective Fiction

2. The Lesbian Detective in New Orleans Detective Fiction.

3. Growing Up Jewish in New Orleans: The New Orleans Jewish Buildingsroman.

4. Voodoo and New Orleans Fiction

5. The African-American Detective in New Orleans Detective Fiction

6. New Orleans as Setting in the Novels of George Washington Cable.

7. Creoles as Villains in the New Orleans Novel.

8. The Octoroon Ballroom as Setting in the Stories of New Orleans.

9. Napoleon House, Gallatoires, and Antoines as Settings in the Fiction of New Orleans.

10. The Wealthy African-American Businessman in the 19th. Century Historical Novel.

11. Two Families; One Husband: Dual Families in the Novels of New Orleans: Why Mother was not Allowed to Shop.

12. The Southern Attorney as Hero in the Novels of New Orleans.

12. What is the oldest house in the French Quarter and How do You Know?

13. Death by Poisoning: A Theme In the Fiction of New Orleans.

14. The Secret Garden in the Secret House in New Orleans.

15. Witches in the House: The Witchworks of Anne Rice.

16. Shabby Sheek: The New Orleans Style Exported

17. African Stonecutters of New Orleans.

18. 17th. Century building techniques in New Orleans French Quarter

19. Myths and Realties of the Quadroon Ballroom: Pacage

20. Stealing from Women of Property: The Shameful History of the Ursaline Sisters Loss of their Quarter Property

21. Newcomb potters and William Morris

22. Pre-Newcomb Pottery of Tulane University

23. The Ursalines from New Orleans to Galveston: How Close were the Convents?

24. The Influence of William Morris's palette on the colors of Newcomb Pottery

25. Ursaline Social Revolutionaries: Teaching Women of Color to Read and Write

Judy Long, Editor, Literary New Orleans, Hill Street Press, Athens, Georgia, 1999

Heard, Malcolm. French Quarter Manual. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.Prof. Heard teaches architecture at Tulane and this work discusses the buildings of the French Quarter.

Percy, Walker, The MovieGoer, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.

Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie LaVeau. New York: St. Martin's 1995 Paperback.

Rice, Anne, The Feast of All Saints. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
(Like Jewell Parker Rhodes' work, this book is about the Free People of Color in New Orleans before the Civil War).

Sexton, Richard and Randolph Delehanty, New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

Toledano, Roulhac, The National Trust Guide to New Orleans. New York: Wiley, 1996.

Toole, John Kennedy. Confederacy of Dunces. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

Williams, Tennessee, streetcar Named Desire,

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Dinner(jambalaya $4.95 at Napoleon House, 500 Chartres at St. Louis in the Quarter) or use one of the coupons like Café SBISA at 1011 Decatur Street (904-522-5565, bur remember dinner there starts at $35.00),the French Quarters oldest dining establishment or Tuaque's at 823 Decatur Street.) Muffeletta Central Grocery or Mothers. Mufaletta at Central Grocery 925 Decatur St. in the Quarter is the best in New Orleans. Buy a jar of their olive salad at $7.95 a quarter to take back home with you, but you can only get it at Zuppardo's grocery on Veterans.

Hermann-Grima House 820 St. Louis St. or Gallier House Museum at 1118-1132 Royal Street. (see coupon) or Garden District Walking Tour. All tours of garden district depart at The Pontchartrain Hotel 2031 St Charles Ave, corner of Josephine St. (see $3.00 off coupon). Or The Historic New Orleans Collection, tours of Louisiana History Galleries and the Williams Resident - buy one get one free coupon). Or Gray Line French Quarter Walking Tour or Gray Line supercity tour at Toulouse St. at Mississippi River. Or you can just ride a trolley up the St. Charles Route. Riverfront Streetcar line 1 dollar or !.25.

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Faulkner House - 624 Pirate's Alley (behind St. Louis Cathedral and the scene of daring pirate prison escapes and legendary dueling ground) , We will be allowed to see inside one of Faulkner's two residences in this area. In this house Faulkner lived with Spratting in a rented room after Sherwood Anderson returned and needed the space that he shared with his wife. New Orleans, La. Lived on ground floor. 1925. Soldier's Pay gained inspiration for Mosquitoes, The Wild Palms, and Pylon. New Orleans Sketches. published by the Double Dealer, founded by a group of talented poets in response to H. L Menken called New Orleans a cultural wasteland. Also see Pere Antoine's alley. Also Tennessee Williams lived at 726-8 Toulouse. Go find it. Ernest Gaines, A Louisiana Life. Ismael Reed. Sprattling in NO - companions Natalie Scott, Sherwood Anderson, Oliver La Farge, Frans Blom, John Dos Passos and Faulkner.

Jackson Square was 1721 the French colonial government of Louisiana commissioned engineer Adrien de Pauger to create a city styled on those in Europe at the time, with a grid of street focusing on a large public square in the center. Pauger's plan became the layout of what is now the Vieux Carre. The public square was originally intended to be a parade ground and practice field for the army troops stationed in the city, hence its name, Place d'Armes. Its purpose as a military parade ground solidified in the 1760's, when the Spanish took control of the Louisiana territories and constructed the Cabildo next to St. Louis Cathedral, both overlooking the Plaza das Armas, as the square was called by the Spanish. Together we will tour The Cabildo which housed the Spanish colonial government offices and the local army garrison. The square was renamed in 1848 in honor of General Andrew Jackson, for his defense of the city at the Battle of New Orleans, Dec. 1814-Jan. 1815. The square's current look dates from 1851, when the Baroness Pontalba had it landscaped in a solar pattern, honoring Louis XIV, the Sun King of France.

Jean LaFitte's Blacksmith Shop his Baratarians - 941 Bourbon St. Corner of St. Philip St. This cottage was built in 1772 using soft brick and reinforced timber in the 17th. Century style. The cottage may be the oldest in the quarter. What are the other contenders? This is not an easy site to tour as it is a working bar, but it is in such bad repair that the front is torn away, to our advantage, so we can see the building materials that were used to make it. Notice that the original building materials are homemade brick reinforced with timbers in the 17th. Century style. How do you know the nationality of the builders?

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Metairie Cemetery - final resting place of voodoo queen Marie LaVeau, and the art of sculpture in New Orleans (see handout). We will go to 1801 Dauphine Street, the home of Marie LeVeau's father. I will lecture on the stonecutters of New Orleans in this cemetery. Do not go here on your own or at night. This site is only safe in the daytime when we are in groups. I know everyone who has read the novel on Marie LaVeau's life will want to go to this fascinating cemetery right off Basin St. and Storyville, but do not go there alone. New Orleans is still a city of sometimes extreme poverty and this site is near a pocket of just that kind of poverty and homelessness.

Possible excursion to 632 St. Peter's Street where Tennessee Williams wrote Streetcar Named Desire'
Then up to 20- of us can go next door to 630 St. .Peter's Street to eat gumbo at the Gumbo Shop, to enjoy the 1795 Commagere-Mercier house with its mansard roof added by the French family in 1846. Also to admire while dining at the Gumbo Shop are Marc Anthony's murals of the presbytere and .the Cabildo

Evening: Preservation Hall 8:00 Those of us who went to see Tennessee Williams' domicilia and to the Gumbo Shop for dinner need but go one block to 726 St. Peter's.

We will all visit the Historic New Orleans Collection 533 Royal St. The Collection features special exhibits in the main gallery which are free and open to the public, but the guided tour of this historic complex is highly recommended. $2.00, but we have buy one ticket get one free coupon. 10-4:45 Tours at 10am, 11am., 2pm and 3pm. Dr. Cunningham will not need to fill in for these docents as they know much more about the history of New Orleans than she does. She will stand awestruck with you will the docents lead us on our tour.

St. Charles Streetcar; starts at Canal St 0r Carondelet St. in the central business district clanging through the garden district, passing Tulane and Audubon Park, ending up in Carrolton - 13 mile, 90-minute round trip.Walk to Storeyville, Basin Street on the way to Metairie Cemetery to visit the sculptures and Marie LeVeau.

8:00 pm. Go to Funky Butt Jazzz Club (advance ticket purchase) Then to Storyville District Jazz Club.

Dinner at Café Degas (Receive a complimentary entrée with purchase of same) 3127 Esplanade Ave. 504-945-5635
The Mighty Mississippi Free Tour;The Algiers Ferry leaves the Canal Street docks every half-hour starting at 6am. Best bet is to take the ferry at twilight staying for the round trip (45 minutes) and returning to see the New Orleans skyline twinkling under the Southern Sky. Free to pedestrians and $1.00 for car. A wonderful inexpensive dinner is to buy a mufaletta for 4 at Central Market or one for two, half-dressed, at Mother's and take it on the ferry at dusk. Perhaps I am an incurable romantic, but you can combine a trip to Algiers, a New Orleans cityscape and dusk and dinner at sea for just the price of the sandwich. An alternative boat ride is the zoo cruise, which leaves the River View Docks of the Audubon Park Zoo on a regular basis floating down river to the Aquarium of the Americas at the foot of Canal St. Nominal Charge.

Late night coffee at Café de Monde and view of St. Louis Cathedral by moonlight or Voodoo cemetery tour (see below and coupon) or use the Haagen-Dazs coupon for ice cream in the French Quarter at 621 St. Peter.

Go to Snug Harbort Jazz Club to hear Ellis Marsalis

National Park Service offers a free tour of Garden District.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art 603 Julia St. This is a requirement for my class and a must for anyone in New Orleans who is interested in painting and its history in New Orleans.

French Quarter Mystique walking tour: French Market, oldest open air market in the nation to Urseline Convent, oldest building in Mississippi Rover Valley, to Jean Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, to Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, to the Cabildo and the Presbytere(originally the residence for the priests of St. Louis Cathedral, this Spanish Colonial building now houses the State's collection of paintings, art, and photographs), the magnificent Spanish buildings which flank the cathedral, the Pontalba Buildings, the oldest apartments in the United States and the legacy of the Baroness Pontalba, wh and the statue of Andrew Jackson. Then the Creole courtyard where you will learn about the complexities of Creole Society. Quadroon Ballroom, the world of Creole mistresses and the system of pacage. Anne Rice sites and the history of Faulkner House and Tennessee Williams home when he wrote A Streetcar Named Desire. The Cabildo is on 701 Chartres St on Jackson Square. In 1988 the Cabildo nearly burned to the ground. After an extensive, five year renovation the Cabildo has been restored to its former glory. Then Spanish constructed the Cabildo in 1795 to house the Spanish colonial city council. In 1803 the documents transferring the Louisiana Purchase Territories from France to the United States were signed in this very building. After signing of the Louisiana Purchase the Cabildo was transformed into the City Council of New Orleans. From 1853 to 1910 the Supreme Court of Louisiana was housed here. Since 1911 the Cabildo has operated as the Louisiana State Museum. The 1850 House Lower Pontalba Building, Jackson Square - this museum is kind of hard to fine. It is located right in the middle of a line of row houses facing Jackson Square. The 1850 house features exhibits depicting the daily life of New Orleans Creole home during the 1850's. The US Mint - 400 Esplanade Ave - at the corner of Decatur and Esplanade The Cabildo was rebuilt in 1838, then captured and used to coin confederate money. We have a 20% off coupon for any single building admission of Louisiana State Museum - Cabildo, Presbytere, Old US Mint or 1850 House.

The LaMothe House and LaMothe Silver - Silversmithing in New Orleans; Anne Rice's New Orleans and Degas House. New Orleans and Southern Customs; Visit to Garden District and Irish Quarter But all good things must come to an end so we must get ourselves to the airport in time to catch our plane and return to work, alas.

Big Easy Farewell Dinner Dinner at Dominique's French Quarter Restaurant - $15.00 off bill when two entrees are ordered. (See Map for directions) or Smith's Louise XVI Restaurant Francais at the Saint Louis Hotel at 730 Rue Bienville. Or The Bombay Club at 830 Conti Street. Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire Tour. Follow in Williams' footsteps by riding his trolley. Natchez or Cajun Queene, Port of new Orleans Riverboat: Cajun Queen or Creole Queene. ; One complimentary admission with the purchase of one adult admission for one hour daily harbor cruise or battlefield cruise. Aquarium Dock; 1130am, l: 00 PM; 2:30 PM. 4:00 PM.

Go to airport about 11:00 for return flight Flight Continental Return to Houston

Return from Trip Component

Algren, Nelson, A Walk on the Wild Side, New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1956, a sadly dated novel that was made into an interesting movie.

Austin, Doris Jean, and Martin Simmons, . Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Black Urban Experience: Penguin, 1996

Barnhardt, Wilton, Gospel, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993

Barton, Fredrick. With Extreme Prejudice. New York: Villard Books, 2993

Battle, Lois, Storyville. New York: Viking, 1993

Bennett, James Gordon, My Father's Geisha. New York: Delacorte, 1990

Bennett, James Gordon The Moon Stops Here. New York: Doubleday, 1994

Bonner, Thomas Jr., and Robert Skinner. Above Ground: Stories of Life and Death by New Southern Writers. New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 1993.

Bosworth, Sheila. Almost Innocent. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. We will be reading a selection from this work in the course, but you are welcome to choose the novel for your report.

Bradford, Roark, How Comes Christmas, New York: Harper, 1948 - Although he wrote many books, this is arguably his last and best.

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Bradley, John Ed. The Best There Ever Was. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1990.

Brite, Poppy Z, Exquisite Corpse, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Seeing as we are going to being staying in the French Quarter, maybe you do not want to read this novel about a serial killer working that neighborhood.

Brown, John Gregory, The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. As usual, Brown is exploring the baroque nature of race relations in New Orleans.

Burke, James Lee. Sunset Limited. New York: Doubleday, 1998. Or anything of his detective series staring Dave Robischeaux. Very "Big Easy."

Butler, Robert Olen, A Good Sent from a Strange Mountain, New York, Henry Holt, 1992.

Cable, George Washington. The Grandissimes. New York: Scriber's 1880; Revised 1883; Old Creole Days. New York: Scribner's, 1879.

Capote, Truman, Other Voices, Other Rooms, New York: Random House, 1948; :One Christmas, New York: Random House, 1983.

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago, H.S. Stone, 1899.

Codrescu, Andrei. Messiah. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1999. We are already reading one work by Codrescu but Messiah would be a great addition to your understanding of New Orleans as there are many French Quarter sites in this fascinating book.

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Corrington, John William, and Joyce Corrington, A Project Named Desire, New York: Viking Penguin, 1987. Rat Trap is an African-American detective and Corrington's series on him and New Orleans are worth the read.

Crais, Robert. Voodoo River. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Yet another New Orleans detective, but not as good as above.

Crone, Moira. Dream State. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.

Daniell, Rosemary. Hurricane Season. New York: William Morrow, 1992.

Davis, Albert Belisle.Leechtime, and Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Dos Passos, John. The Forty-second Parrallel. New York: Harcourt, 1937.

Dubus, Andre. Selected Stories. Boston: David R. Godine. 1988.

Dunbar, Tony. City of Beads, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1995.

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Edwards, Louis, N. A Romantic Mystery. New York: Dutton. 1997.

Faulkner, William: The Wild Palms; New Orleans Sketches(with Sherwood Anderson) Sherwood Anderson and Other Creoles(with William Sprattling); Mosquitoes; Pylon.

Feibleman, William A Place without Twilight. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

Fennelly, Tony, The Glory Hole Murders. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1985. Matt Sinclair, a gay antique dealer not unlike Lovejoy in that he is also a sleuth, shows one a side of New Orleans that is largely unknown outside of Southern Decadence Weekend. Do not tell your mother that Fennelly's books are on my list. Do not tell my boss.

Friedmann, Patty. The Exact Image of Mother. New York: Viking, 1991. A kind of an update on Hellman's growing up Jewish in New Orleans.

Gaines, Ernest. J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, New York: Dial. 1071; A Gathering of Old Men, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983; A Lesson before Dying, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Gilcrist, Ellen, The Annunciation. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. We will read from this novel.

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Grau, Shirley Ann. The House on Coliseum Street. New York,Knopf. 1994.

Grue, Lee Meitzen, Goodbye, Silver, Silver Cloud: New Orleans Stories. Austin: Plain View Press, 1994.

Hambly, Barbara, A Free Man of Color, New York: Bantam, 1997. Hambly studies a fascinating phenomena of New Orleans in the 1850's and later: the 500 families of free men of color with property in access of 10,000 dollars.

Henry, O. (W. S.Porter). the Collected Stories of O. Henry, We will be reading "Cherchez la Femme" but "Renaissance at Charleroi" and "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" are others stories that are set in our locale. "The Last Leaf" gives the feel of the city as well.

Keyes, Frances Parkinson. Dinner at Antoine's New York: Messner, 1948. G\

King, Grace. Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters. Out of print. King is one of those rare writers who actually lived all of her life in New Orleans.

Lemann, Nancy, The Ritz of the Bayou. New York: Knopf, 1987.

Miller, Joyn and Genevieve Anderson. Eds. New Orleans Stories. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. I almost ordered this as a text to the course because it not only has great selections, but an intro. By Andrei Codrescu.

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Neihart, Ben. Hey, Joe' Another work about being gay in New Orleans. Buildingsroman. This is a well-written book, sensitively characterized.

Percy, Walker, Lancelot; The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins; The Message in the Bottle; The Moviegoer.; The Second Coming; The Thanatos Syndrome. We will be reading The Moviegoer, a study of one young Southern man's fight against depression and the life that he is expected to live. The Thanatos Syndrome, written after Percy knew that he had cancer, is an ecological novel about industrial poisoning of the Mississippi Delta.

Porter, Katherine Anne. Collected Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1979. These are particularly interesting to us because Porter divided her time among Texas, Mexico and Louisiana.

Rechy, John City of Night, Grove-Atlanta, 1988. Another Marti Gras novel, but this time the homosexual hero is a prostitute.

Redmann, Jean, Lost Daughters, Intersection of Law and Desire; Deaths ofJocasta, Death by the Riverside. Lesbian detective Micky Knight attempts to solve mysteries in New Orleans. I love these things myself.

Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau. New York: St. Martin's 1995 Paperback. We will be reading this book by a new African-American writer on a truly fascinating African-American matriarch and intellect.

Rice, Anne: Cry to Heaven, The Feast of All Saints; Interview with the Vampire: Lasher; Memmoch the Devil; The Mummy,or Ramses the Damned; The Qaueen of the Damned; Servant of the Bones, The Tale of the Body Their; Taltos; The Vampire Armand; The Vampire Lestat; Violin., The Witching Hour, Belinda, Exit to Eden; Beauty's Punishment; Beauty's Release; The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.

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Robbins, Tim. Jitterbug Perfume. New York: Bantam, 1984

Sallis, James, Black Hornet, New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994. The detective in Sallis's novels is an African-American man who is a Tulane Professor of English.

Salaam, Kalamu ya. From a Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets. New Orleans; Runagate Press, 1998.

Sancton, Thomas Count Roller Skates, Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, 1956.
Shaik, Fatima, The Mayor of New Orleans; Just Talking Jazz, Berkeley: Creative Art Books, 1989.

Smith, Julie, New Orleans Beat, New York: Ballantine, 1994. More detective fiction featuring Skip Langdon, a Big Easy Policewoman.

Spencer, Elizabeth, The Snare. Louisiana State University Press, 1994.

Toole, John Kennedy. Confederacy of Dunces. Baton Rouge; Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

Wells, Rebecca. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. New York; HarperCollins, 1996. Not really about New Orleans, but I know that you have read it and seen the movie and I don't want you to think that I don't know that you are thinking of this book as we read the others. We are not reading this book. It is not about New Orleans.

Williams, Tennesese. A StreetCar Named Desire, New York: New Directions, 1947. We are reading this book and going to see the place where Williams lived in New Orleans.

Williams, Tennessee, Vieux Carre. New York: New Directions, 1979.

Christian, Marcus. Negro Ironworkers in Louisiana 1718-1900., Gretna, La: Pelican, 1972.

Clark, Robert Judson, ed. The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1972.

Kaplan, Wendy. "The Art that is Life": The Arts & Crafts Movement in America,
1875-1920. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1987.

Lambourne, Lionel. Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds
to Chicago. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1980.

Ormond, Suzanne, and Mary E. Irvine. Louisiana's Art Nouveau. The Crafts of the Newcomb
Style. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Co., 1976.

Parry, Linda. William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. New York: Portland House,
1989.

Poesch, Jessie. Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women, 1895-1940. Exton:
Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1984.

Poulson, Christine. William Morris. New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1989.

Stickley, Gustav. Craftsman Homes: Architecture and Frunishings of the American Arts and
Crafts Movement. New York: Craftsman Publishing Company, 1909.

Friends of the Cabildo, New Orleans Architecture. Gretna, La. Pelican. Various dates. 8 vols.

Heard, Malcolm,. French Quarter Manual. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 1997. This is one of our textbooks.

Lane, Mills. B Jr. Architecture of the old South: Louisiana. Photographs by Van Jones Martin. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1997.

Mitchell, William Jr. Classic New Orleans, Savannah: Golden Coast, 1993.

Poesch, Jessie and Barbara SoRelle Bacot, eds. Louisiana Buildings 1720-1940: The Historic American Buildings Survey, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

Toledano, Roulhac. The National Trust Guide to New Orleans. New York: Wiley, 1996.

Seidenberg, Charlotte, The New Orleans Garden. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

Turner, Suzanne, Louisiana Gardens; Places of Work and Wonder. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

Feigenbaum, Gail and Jean Sutherland Boggs. Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America. New York: Rizzoli, 1999.

Mahe, John, Rosanne McCaffrey, and Patricia Brady, The Encyclpoaedia of New Orleans Artists, 1718-1918.