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.

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Reading William Gilmore Simms: Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon (Projects of the Simms Initiatives)

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William C Hine

Todd Hagstette

United States, United States of America

FR, 2017

2, 2017

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Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright 2
Contents 6
Preface 10
Acknowledgments 16
William Gilmore Simms: A Biographical Overview 18
The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens 32
Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi 42
Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story; With Other Tales of Imagination 54
The Cassique of Kiawah: A Colonial Romance 67
Castle Dismal; or, The Bachelor’s Christmas 77
Confession; or, The Blind Heart 88
The Damsel of Darien 100
Dramas: Norman Maurice; Michael Bonham; and Benedict Arnold 114
Egeria; or, Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside 127
The Golden Christmas: A Chronicle of St. John’s, Berkeley 134
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia 145
Helen Halsey; or, The Swamp State of Conelachita. A Tale of the Borders 156
Historical and Political Poems: Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems; The Tri-Color; Donna Florida. A Tale; and Charleston and Her Satirists 166
History and Geography: The History of South Carolina from Its First European Discovery to Its Erection into a Republic and The Geography of South Carolina: Being a Companion to the History of that State 182
The Kentucky Tragedy Romances: Charlemont; or, The Pride of the Village and Beauchampe; or, The Kentucky Tragedy 193
The Library of American Books: Views and Reviews, First & Second Series and The Wigwam and the Cabin 206
The Life of Captain John Smith. The Founder of Virginia 217
The Life of the Chevalier Bayard; “The Good Knight,” “Sans peur et sans reproche” 225
The Life of Francis Marion 239
The Lily and the Totem; or, The Huguenots in Florida 251
Marie de Berniere: A Tale of the Crescent City 274
Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal; and Other Tales 286
Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative 296
The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson, with a Memoir of His Life 304
The Revolutionary Romances: The Partisan; Mellichampe; The Scout; Katharine Walton; Woodcraft; The Forayers; Eutaw; and Joscelyn 312
Richard Hurdis: A Tale of Alabama 334
Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, SC 346
Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond 364
Simms’s Poems: Areytos or Songs and Ballads of the South with Other Poems 379
Social and Political Prose: Slavery in America and Father Abbot 391
South-Carolina in the Revolutionary War 403
Southward Ho! A Spell of Sunshine 409
The Spanish Romances: Pelayo and Count Julian 422
A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare 436
Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World 446
War Poetry of the South 459
Woodcraft; or, Hawks about the Dovecote 472
The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina 484
Bibliography 502
Contributors 532
Index 536
Publisher:University of South Carolina Press,Published:2017,ISBN:9781611177732,Related ISBN:9781611177725,Language:English,OCLC:983786294
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.

"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. "-- Résumé de l'éditeur

"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

2022-03-08