The Forayers
Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1557287414 |
Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published The Forayers in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create a prose epic through a series of linked novels detailing American history and struggles from early colonization to the mid-nineteenth century. The Forayers, which was the sixth book in his series of eight Revolutionary War novels set in the South, describes events around Orangeburg, South Carolina, before the Battle of Eutaw Springs (itself covered in this novel's sequel, Eutaw). It features such characters as Hell-fire Dick, a hardhearted, foul-mouthed looter under Tory protection. Simms hoped his readers would find this book "a bold, brave, masculine story; frank, ardent, vigorous; faithful to humanity." He described it to a friend as "fresh and original" and wrote that "the characterization [is] as truthful as forcible. It is at once a novel of society & a romance."
Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Eutaw Springs, Battle of, S.C., 1781 |
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Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 188? |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : South Carolina |
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Author | : William Gilmore Simms |
Publisher | : Reprint Company |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780871522405 |
Covers the retreat of the British forces from Ninety Six toward Orangeburg and Charleston.
Author | : John Caldwell Guilds |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9781610753814 |
Encompasses ante-colonial America, the English colonies, the Revolutionary War, and the rampaging frontier and constitutes a unique national literary treasure. Guilds's Simms restores Simms to his proper place as a major figure in American letters and reintroduces the man and the author to the reading public.
Author | : Sean R. Busick |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781570035654 |
Widely regarded as the antebellum South's foremost man of letters, William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) wrote novels and poetry that recently have enjoyed a remarkable resurgence of interest. While scholars have previously considered Simms as primarily a poet, editor, and writer of fiction, Sean R. Busick contends that the author is more fully understood as a historian. In this fresh look at Simms and his contributions, Busick brings to light the lasting impact of the South Carolinian's efforts to comprehend American history and to preserve important pieces of the historical record. In A Sober Desire for History, Busick argues that Simms made five significant contributions to American historiography. Simms's achievements include his work as an archivist, preserving a wealth of primary source materials that probably would not exist today if not for his efforts; as a champion of accessible and well-wrought historical writing; and as an advocate for what he considered democratic history - history that recognizes individuals rather than impersonal forces as the impetus for historical events. Loyalists and women, traditionally neglected in the telling of American history. Finally, although Busick shows that Simms published historical romances, biographies, and a state history, he also made an important, lasting contribution to the writing of American history through his support and encouragement of other historians. Busick addresses, among other topics, Simms's ideas on the relationship between history and fiction, his work as a biographer, his writing of the text that would be used to teach history to generations of South Carolina schoolchildren, and his controversial 1856 Northern lecture series on South Carolina's role in the American Revolution.
Author | : Alison Pouliot |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1486308597 |
Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers and Traditional Owners. It explores how a history of entrenched fears and misconceptions about fungi has led to their near absence in Australian ecological consciousness and biodiversity conservation. Through a combination of text and visual essays, the author reflects on how aesthetic, sensate experience deepened by scientific knowledge offers the best chance for understanding fungi, the forest and human interactions with them.
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Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1906 |
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