Works of William Gilmore Simms
Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
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Author | : Mary Ann Wimsatt |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807125267 |
William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) was the preeminent southern man of letters in the antebellum period, a prolific, talented writer in many genres and an eloquent intellectual spokesman of r his region. During his long career, he wrote plays, poetry, literary criticism, biography and history; but he is best remembered for his numerous novels and tales. Many Ann Wimsatt provides the first significant full-length evaluation of Simms’s achievement in his long fiction, selected poetry, essays, and short fiction. Wimsatt’s chief emphasis is on the thirty-odd novels that Simms published from the mid-1830s until after the Civil War. In bringing his impressive body of work to life, she makes use of biographical and historical information and also of twentieth-century literary theories of the romance, Simm’s principal genre. Through analyses of such seminal works as Guy Rivers, The Yemassee, The Cassique of Kiawah, and Woodcraft, Wimsatt illuminates Simm’s contributions to the romance tradition—contributions misunderstood by previous critics—and suggests how to view his novels within the light of recent literary criticism. She also demonstrates how Simms used the historical conditions of southern culture as well as events of his own life to flesh out literary patterns, and she analyzes his use of low-country, frontier and mountain settings. Although critics praised Simms early in his career as “the first American novelist of the day,” the panic of 1837 and the changes in the book market that it helped foster severely damaged his prospects for wealth and fame. The financial recession, Wimsatt finds, together with shifts in literary taste, contributed to the decline of Simms’s reputation. Simms attempted to adjust to the changing climate for fiction by incorporating two modes of nineteenth-century realism, the satiric portrayal of southern manners and southern backwoods humor, into the framework of his long romances; but his accomplishments in these areas have been undervalued or misunderstood by critics since is time. Wimsatt’s book is the first to survey Simms’s fiction and much of his other writing against the background of his life and literary career and the first to make extensive use of his immense correspondence. It is an important study of a neglected author who once served as the leafing symbol of literary activity in the South. It fills what has heretofore been a serious gap in southern literary studies.
Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 600 |
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ISBN | : 9780608400907 |
Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 475 |
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ISBN | : 9780608401515 |
Author | : David Moltke-Hansen |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : 9781611171303 |
William Gilmore Simms's Unfinished Civil War measures the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on one of the Old South's foremost intellectuals. Simms's mid-nineteenth-century poems, novels, and essays and the personal and societal trauma and destruction Simms experienced are all portrayed here. Before the war Simms was the most articulate advocate of Southern nationalism. During the war he became a prophetic critic of Confederate policy and poet of cultural ethnogenesis. The defeat of the Confederacy in 1865 shattered Simms's understanding of the working of history and called into question his sense of a moral providence. This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars first explores William Gilmore Simms's antebellum treatment of the role of warfare in America's past and the South's future. The contributors then consider the impact of the secession crisis, the Civil War, and the Confederate defeat on Simms's and other white and black Southerners' perceptions of their much-changed world. Next Simms's life, published writings, and thoughts during the war and its aftermath are examined. Finally Simms's late poetry and fictions, especially explicit and implicit commentaries on the postwar South, are analyzed. His last oration, The Sense of the Beautiful, published shortly before his death in 1870, is the subject of several essays. William Gilmore Simms's Unfinished Civil War reconstructs from both published writings and private letters the conscious and unconscious effects of the Civil War upon the writer and Southern patriot. Drawing on the fields of history, literature, and even archaeology, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates that the anticipation, course, and consequences of the war were central in shaping Simms's writings from the 1840s to 1870.
Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
Publisher | : Double 9 Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789362204615 |
"Guy Rivers" by William Gilmore Simms is a captivating example of Southern Gothic literature that delves into the intricacies of morality and justice in the antebellum South. Set against the backdrop of the American frontier, Simms weaves a tale of intrigue, betrayal, and redemption. The novel follows the eponymous protagonist, Guy Rivers, a complex character who grapples with his own moral compass as he navigates through a world rife with corruption and violence. As Rivers confronts the consequences of his actions and struggles with his inner demons, Simms offers readers a poignant exploration of the human condition. Through vivid descriptions and rich character development, Simms creates a hauntingly atmospheric narrative that transports readers to a bygone era of Southern society. Themes of guilt, redemption, and the search for meaning permeate the story, leaving a lasting impression on readers long after they have turned the final page. "Guy Rivers" stands as a testament to Simms' literary talent and remains a timeless classic in the canon of Southern literature, showcasing the author's keen insight into the complexities of human nature.
Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780813920191 |
Long considered a leading literary figure of the Old South, William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) wrote letters, novels, short fiction, drama, essays, and poetry in his prolific career. Born in Charleston to an old South Carolina family of modest means and raised by a grandmother with whom his father left him after his mother's death, Simms felt a simultaneous sense of loyalty to and alienation from his native region. He was a major intellectual figure on the East Coast before the Civil War but saw his New York publishers abandon him after secession, of which he was a vocal supporter. Simms's novels and poetry have been published in modern editions, and he has been the subject of numerous biographies and critical studies, but until now there has been no collection covering the broad spectrum of his writings. The Simms Reader presents a selection of his nonnovelistic work--letters, short fiction, essays, historical writings, poetry, and epigrams--chosen and introduced by the preeminent Simms scholar John Caldwell Guilds.
Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : South Carolina |
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Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1859 |
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