Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Creating the White Louisiana Creole -- 1. Charles Gayarré and the Cultivation of a Louisiana Creole Print Terroir -- 2. Catholic Priest and Poet Adrien Rouquette Bridges the Atlantic Ocean -- 3. Alfred Mercier, the Athénée Louisianais, and the Fight to Preserve the French Language -- 4. George Washington Cable, Blood Matters, and the Creole Backlash -- 5. Grace King's Lost Creole Cause and the Feminization of New Orleans's Creole Culture -- Conclusion: Creating the Creole City in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.