Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385570778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story. With Other Tales of Imagination
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385570778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Carl Werner, An Imaginative Story
Author: W.G. SimmsPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 587424946X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Reading William Gilmore Simms
Author: Todd HagstettePublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611177731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Engaging approaches to the vast output of South Carolina's premier man of letters 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 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.
Representative American Short Stories
Author: Robert William ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781611176858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ... vast lake and marsh, which, occupying a space of nearly three hundred miles in extent, and in very rainy seasons almost completely inundated, presented, amidst the thousand islands which its bosom conceals, fruitful and inviting materials for inquiry and adventure. Girt in with interminable forests, the space of which was completely filled up with umbrageous vines and a thick underwood, the trial was one of no little peril, and called for the exercise of stout heart, strong hand, and a world of fortitude and patience. It was also the abidingplace of the wild boar and the panther--the southern crocodile howled nightly in its recesses--and the coiled snake, ever and anon, thrust out its venomous fangs from the verdant bush. With w ords of cheer and mutual encouragement, the young hunters made their way. They were well armed and prepared for all chances; and fondly did they anticipate the delight which they would entertain, on relating their numerous adventures and achievements, by field and flood, to the assembled nation, on the return of the ensuing spring. They took with them no unnecessary incumbrances. The well tempered bow, the chosen and barbed arrows, the curved knife, suited to a transition the most abrupt, from the scalping of the enemy to the carving of the repast, and the hatchet, fitted to the adroit hand of the hunter, and ready at his back for all emergencies, were the principal accoutrements of the warriors. They troubled themselves not much about provisions. A little parched corn supplied all wants, and the dried venison in their pouches was a luxury, taken on occasion only. They knew that, for an Indian, the woods had always a pregnant store; and they did not doubt that their own address, in such matters, would at all times enable them to co...
Carl Werner. Ipsistos. The star brethren. Onea and Anyta
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: John D. KerkeringPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139440985
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
Simms: a Literary Life (p)
Author: John Caldwell GuildsPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610753814
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.