Barbara Eckstein is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on urban planning and sustainability for MIT Press. She published her first book with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1990.

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• 1. The Claims for New Orleans Exceptionalism  2. 'Indiscourageable Progress': The Decline of the New Orleans Streetcar and the Rise of A Streetcar Named Desire  3. Sex and the Historic City: A Walking Tour on the Wild Side  4. Malaise and Miasms: Dr Percy and the Public Health of New Orleans Environs  5. The Spectacle between Piety and Desire: New Orleans Black Panther Party and Ishamel Reed's Neo-HooDooism  6. The Vampires' Middle Passage: The World of Anne Rice and the Promise of New Orleans's Coast  7. Mapping the Spirit Region: Sister Helen, the Dead Men, and the Folk of New Orleans Environs