TY - BOOK
T1 - [Translation] The Mysteries of New Orleans
AU - Rowan, Steven
AU - von Reizenstein, Ludwig
N1 - Get this from a library! The Mysteries of New Orleans.. [Baron Ludwig Von Reizenstein; Steven W Rowan]
Von Reizenstein, Ludwig. The Mysteries of New Orleans. Translated by Steven Rowan, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason- a nightmarish, 200 year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman-for the sin of slavery. Heraled by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms.
AB - A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason- a nightmarish, 200 year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman-for the sin of slavery. Heraled by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms.
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/697734600
M3 - Book
BT - [Translation] The Mysteries of New Orleans
ER -