Reading William Gilmore Simms
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Reading William Gilmore Simms

Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon

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Reading William Gilmore Simms

Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon

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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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———. “Simms, Hawthorne, and ‘The Inutile Pursuit’ of ‘The Artist of the Beautiful.’” The Simms Review 14.2 (2006): 14–21.
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. William Gilmore Simms: A Biographical Overview
  8. The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens
  9. Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi
  10. Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story; With Other Tales of Imagination
  11. The Cassique of Kiawah: A Colonial Romance
  12. Castle Dismal; or, The Bachelor’s Christmas
  13. Confession; or, The Blind Heart
  14. The Damsel of Darien
  15. Dramas: Norman Maurice; Michael Bonham; and Benedict Arnold
  16. Egeria; or, Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
  17. The Golden Christmas: A Chronicle of St. John’s, Berkeley
  18. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
  19. Helen Halsey; or, The Swamp State of Conelachita. A Tale of the Borders
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. The Kentucky Tragedy Romances: Charlemont; or, The Pride of the Village and Beauchampe; or, The Kentucky Tragedy
  23. The Library of American Books: Views and Reviews, First & Second Series and The Wigwam and the Cabin
  24. The Life of Captain John Smith. The Founder of Virginia
  25. The Life of the Chevalier Bayard; “The Good Knight,” “Sans peur et sans reproche”
  26. The Life of Francis Marion
  27. The Lily and the Totem; or, The Huguenots in Florida
  28. Marie de Berniere: A Tale of the Crescent City
  29. Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal; and Other Tales
  30. Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative
  31. The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson, with a Memoir of His Life
  32. The Revolutionary Romances: The Partisan;Mellichampe; The Scout; Katharine Walton; Woodcraft; The Forayers; Eutaw; and Joscelyn
  33. Richard Hurdis: A Tale of Alabama
  34. Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, SC
  35. Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond
  36. Simms’s Poems: Areytos or Songs and Ballads of the South with Other Poems
  37. Social and Political Prose: Slavery in America and Father Abbot
  38. South-Carolina in the Revolutionary War
  39. Southward Ho! A Spell of Sunshine
  40. The Spanish Romances: Pelayo and Count Julian
  41. A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare
  42. Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World
  43. War Poetry of the South
  44. Woodcraft; or, Hawks about the Dovecote
  45. The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina
  46. Bibliography
  47. Contributors
  48. Index

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