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Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor
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Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor Paperback - 1997

by Henry Clay Lewis; Introduction by Edwin T. Arnold


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Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850) was one of the leading southern humorists of the nineteenth century. Born in South Carolina, he grew up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and attended medical school in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduation Dr. Lewis practiced in a backwoods Louisiana community on the Tensas River, where he treated masters and their slaves on plantations as well as hunters and squatters in the swamps. Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor is a series of sketches that follow the outlandish misadventures of Dr. Madison Tensas--Lewis' literary persona. Many of these stories were first published in New York's Spirit of the Times. Using dialect, comic imagery, folklore, picaresque autobiography, and the form of the mock oral tale, Lewis presents a vigorous--even grotesque--vision of the southern backwoods, where life was often violent and brutal, sometimes shockingly funny, and always wildly different from the polished society of townsmen and wealthy planters. In an expansive new Introduction, Edwin T. Arnold places Lewis' writing in the context of the times, discussing its role in the development of southwestern humor as a literary genre. Arnold emphasizes Lewis' contribution to southern letters through the author's psychological use of the narrating persona and the complex correlation between setting and theme.

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Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor is a series of sketches that follow the outlandish misadventures of Dr. Madison Tensas-Lewis' literary persona.

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  • Title Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor
  • Author Henry Clay Lewis; Introduction by Edwin T. Arnold
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 204
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher LSU Press, Baton Rouge
  • Date 1997
  • ISBN 9780807121672 / 0807121673
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.54 x 0.77 in (21.72 x 14.07 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, American, Louisiana - Social life and customs - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96054030
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.3

About the author

Edwin T. Arnold is professor of English at Appalachian State University in North Carolina and the editor of, among other works, Conversations with Erskine Caldwell, Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, and Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary.
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