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William Gilmore Simms's selected reviews on literature and civilization / edited by James Everett Kibler, Jr., and David Moltke-Hansen, with Ehren Foley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870, author.
- Series:
- William Gilmore Simms Initiatives: Texts and Studies Series
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870--Political and social views.
- Simms, William Gilmore.
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (407 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Moltke-Hansen's introduction to part two examines Simms's roles in, and responses to, the Romantic critical revolution and the other revolutions then roiling Europe and America.
- Contents:
- Cover
- William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text, or, the Devil and Noah Webster
- Introduction: The Man of Letters as Critic
- Part 1: Literature
- Literature's Long View
- Reviews
- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Disowned and Pelham (February 1829)
- James E. Heath's Edge Hill
- or, the Family of the Fitzroyals, a Novel (1 June 1829)
- James Hogg's The Shepherd's Calendar (15 June 1829)
- Charles R. Carroll's Address Delivered Before the Society of Friends of Ireland (1 July 1829)
- William Ellery Channing (October 1842)
- John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems (October 1843)
- G. P. R. James's Arabella Stuart (May 1844)
- Frances Anne Kemble Butler's Poems (August 1844)
- Literature in Ancient Rome (January 1845)
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Home (June 1845)
- Jean Paul Frederich Richter's Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces. Volumes 1 and 2 (June and September 1845)
- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Translation of The Poems and Ballads of Johann Schiller (August 1845)
- Benjamin D'Israeli's Sybil, or the Two Nations (October 1845)
- Poe's Poetry (November 1845)
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Laneton Parsonage (April 1849)
- John Motley's Merry Mount
- a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony (April 1849)
- J. T. Headley's The Adirondack
- or Life in the Woods (October 1849)
- James Russell Lowell's A Fable for Critics (October 1849)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Kavanagh (October 1849)
- William Cowper's Poems (October 1849)
- New Novels (April 1850)
- Sir Thomas Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets (July 1850)
- Henry William Herbert's Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States (July 1850)
- The Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (September 1850)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems (September 1850).
- Robert Browning's Poems (September 1850)
- Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam (November 1850)
- William Wordsworth's The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (November 1850)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (July 1851)
- Christopher Wordsworth's Memoirs of William Wordsworth (July 1851)
- Margaret Fuller's Memoirs (1852)
- Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (January 1852)
- Herman Melville's Pierre, or the Ambiguities (October 1852)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (October 1852)
- J. V. Huntington's The Forest (January 1853)
- Charles Dickens' Bleak House (January 1854)
- Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford (January 1854)
- Anthons's Manual of Greek Literature (April 1854)
- Thomas Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets (April 1854)
- Thomas De Quincey's Writings (April 1854)
- Charles Kingsley's Hypatia (April 1854)
- Hudson Gurney's Translation of The Works of Apuleius (July 1854)
- Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter's Northern Bride (July 1854)
- Phoebe Carey's Poems and Parodies (July 1854)
- The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (July 1854)
- Henry David Thoreau's Walden (8 February 1855)
- Our Literary Docket-New Publications: William Cullen Bryant and Lady Morgan (20 May 1859)
- Our Literary Docket-Novelists, George Eliot, James Hungerford, and Charlotte Mary Yonge (31 May 1859)
- Our Literary Docket-Lord John Campbell's Shakspeare (3 June 1859)
- Our Literary Docket-Charles Lever's Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier (21 June 1859)
- Our Literary Docket-Anthony Trollope's The Bertrams and Doctor Thorne (22 June 1859)
- Our Literary Docket-Bartholomew Rivers Carroll Jr., Hayne, and Timrod (9 August 1859)
- Our Literary Docket-Allen Hampden's Hartley Norman (20 August 1859)
- James Clarence Mangan's Poems (16 February 1860)
- Current Irish Literature from Haverty (2 October 1860).
- Martin Farquhar Tupper's Poetical Works (24 February 1866)
- Leigh Hunt's The Book of the Sonnet (5 April 1867)
- John William De Forest's Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (4 June 1867)
- John Conington's Æneid (29 June 1867)
- The Late Henry Timrod (19 October 1867)
- Charles Warren Stoddard's Poems (9 November 1867)
- Putnam's Magazine (22 January 1870)
- Part II: Civilization
- A Critical Revolution and a Revolutionary Critic
- Review Essays
- François Guizot, Democracy in France (April 1849)
- Tuckerman's Essays and Essayists (July 1850)
- Ellet's Women of the Revolution (July 1850)
- The Southern Convention (September 1850)
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781611172966
- 1611172969
- OCLC:
- 870180306
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