Author: Mary Ann Wimsatt Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807125267 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 328
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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 Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781020400797 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this sequel to 'The Forayers, ' William Gilmore Simms continues to explore the struggles of the American Revolution through the eyes of various characters, both patriot and loyalist, as they battle for control of the South. The novel culminates in the battle of Eutaw Springs, a crucial engagement that proved to be a turning point in the war. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: William Gilmore Simms Publisher: ISBN: 9781611170580 Category : Eutaw Springs, Battle of, S.C., 1781 Languages : en Pages : 0
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Simms's standout characters, Ellen Hurriance NellFloyd and Hell-Fire Dick gain complexity and intrigue as they are further developed from their introductions in The Forayers.
Author: W. Gilmore Simms Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266508854 Category : Languages : en Pages : 594
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Excerpt from Eutaw: A Sequel to the Forayers, or the Raid of the Dog-Days; A Tale of the Revolution But the swamp-recesses darken even as the hilltops of heaven grow bright. It is not even for such clear-eyed and beautiful watchers to pierce their gloomy depths. The pitchy tents be low are impenetrable; and frog and cayman exult aloud, in horrid concert, even because of the dense thickets which keep them from the loving eyes of the stars. Hark! There are other sounds than such as issue from throat of night-bird or reptile. They hold not the empire to them selves. It is a bugle that speaks shrilly to the night. One single, sharp note - a signal - and all is again silent, save the whip-poor-will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Gilmore Simms Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1557287414 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 590
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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 Publisher: Hansebooks ISBN: 9783744724654 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Forayers - The Raid of the Dog-Days is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author: William Gilmore Simms Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1557288283 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 589
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The battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781 that ended British domination of South Carolina is the focus of this historical novel that brings to life such notable figures as Francis Marion, Nathanael Greene, and Light-Horse Harry Lee and includes a critical introduction by the editor and the author's chronology, as well as appendixes dealing with textual matters. Reprint.
Author: Mary Ann Wimsatt
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Author: William Gilmore Simms
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Author: William Gilmore Simms