Reading William Gilmore Simms Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon / edited by Todd Hagstette.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagstette, Todd, editor.

Series:

William Gilmore Simms initiatives, texts, and studies.

William Gilmore Simms Initiatives : texts and studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870.

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2017.

Summary:

"William Gilmore Simms was the best known and certainly the most accomplished writer of the mid-nineteenth-century South. His literary ascent began early, with his first book being published when he was nineteen years old and his reputation as a literary genius secured before he turned thirty. Over a career that spanned nearly forty-five years, he established himself as the American South's premier man of letters -- an accomplished poet, novelist, short fiction writer, essayist, historian, dramatist, cultural journalist, biographer, and editor. In Reading William Gilmore Simms, Todd Hagstette has created an anthology of critical introductions to Simms's major publications, including those recently brought back into print by the University of South Carolina Press, offering the first ever primer compendium of the author's vast output. Simms was a Renaissance man of American letters, lauded in his time by both popular audiences and literary icons alike. Yet the author's extensive output, which includes nearly eighty published volumes, can be a barrier to his study. To create a gateway to reading and studying Simms, Hagstette has assembled thirty-eight essays by twenty-four scholars to review fifty-five Simms's works. Addressing all the author's major works, the essays provide introductory information and scholarly analysis of the most crucial features of Simms's literary achievement. Arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, the book also features a topical index for more targeted inquiry into Simms's canon. Detailing the great variety and astonishing consistency of Simms's thought throughout his long career as well as examining his posthumous reconsideration, Reading William Gilmore Simms bridges the author's genius and readers' growing curiosity. The only work of its kind, this book provides an essential passport to the far-flung worlds of Simms's fecund imagination. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

William Gilmore Simms: / DAVID MOLTKE-HANSEN

The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens / JEFFERY J. ROGERS

Border Beagles: / JOHN D. MILLER

Carl Werner, An Imaginative Story; With Other Tales Of Imagination / SAM LACKEY

The Cassique of Kiawah: / KEVIN COLLINS

Castle Dismal; or, The Bachelors Christmas / JOHN M. MCCARDELL, BRIAN K. FENNESSY

Confession; or, The Blind Heart / TODD HAGSTETTE

The Damsel of Darien / MICHAEL ODOM

Dramas: / ABIGAIL LUNDELIUS SMITH

Egeria; or, Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside / DAVID S. SHIELDS

The Golden Christmas: / TODD HAGSTETTE

Guy Rivers: / TODD HAGSTETTE

Helen Halsey; or, the Swamp State of Conelachita. / JILLIAN WEBER

Historical and Political Poems: / JASON W. JOHNSON

History and Geography: / SEAN R. BUSICK

The Kentucky Tragedy Romances: / TODD HAGSTETTE

Library of American Books: / DAVID MOLTKE-HANSEN

The Life of Captain John Smith. / CAREY M. ROBERTS

The Life of the Chevalier Bayard; The Good Knight, Sans peur et sans reproche / JEFFERY J. ROGERS

The Life of Francis Marion / STEVEN D. SMITH

The Lily and the Totem; or, The Huguenots in Florida / NICHOLAS G. MERIWETHER

Marie de Berniere: / W. MATTHEW J. SIMMONS

Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal; and Other Tales / TODD HAGSTETTE

Poems: / MATTHEW C. BRENNAN

The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson, with a Memoir of His Life / JEFFERY J. ROGERS

The Revolutionary Romances: / DAVID MOLTKE-HANSEN

Richard Hurdis: / JOHN D. MILLER

Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, SC / NICHOLAS G. MERIWETHER

Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond / ALEXANDER MOORE

Simmss Poems: / JASON W. JOHNSON

Social and Political Prose: / EHREN FOLEY

South-Carolina in the Revolutionary War / SEAN R. BUSICK

Southward Ho! A Spell of Sunshine / JILLIAN WEBER

The Spanish Romances: / W. MATTHEW J. SIMMONS

A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare / NAN MORRISON

Vasconselos: / KEVIN COLLINS

War Poetry of the South / COLEMAN HUTCHISON

Woodcraft; or, Hawks about the Dovecote / JAMES EVERETT KIBLER

The Yemassee: / DAVID MOLTKE-HANSEN

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611177732

1611177731

OCLC:

983786294