Download or read book The Place of William Gilmore Simms s Fiction in American Literature written by David Archibald McDowell and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms written by Mary Ann Wimsatt and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book William Gilmore Simms and His Novels of the American Revolution written by Franklin A. Cawley and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Views and Reviews in American Literature written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Gilmore Simms s Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization written by William Gilmore Simms and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During William Gilmore Simms's life (1806-1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse. Simms was an assiduous reviewer and essayist, proving by example the importance of those genres. William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization publishes for the first time in book form sixty-two examples of the writer's hundreds of newspaper and periodical reviews and book notes as well as four important critical essays. Together, the reviews and essays reveal the regional, national, and international dimensions of Simms's intellectual interests. To frame the two distinct parts of Selected Reviews, James Everett Kibler, Jr., and David Moltke-Hansen have written a general introduction that considers the development of book reviewing and the authorship of essays in cultural and historical contexts. In part one, Kibler offers an introduction that examines Simms's reviewing habits and the aesthetic and critical values that informed the author's reviews. Kibler then publishes selected texts of reviews and provides historical and cultural backgrounds for each selection. Simms was an early proponent of the critical theories of Romantics such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edgar Allan Poe. Widely read in European history and literature, he reviewed works published in French, German, and classics in original Greek and Latin and in translation. Simms also was an early, ardent advocate of works of local color and of southern "backwoods" humorists of his day. Simms published notices of seven of Herman Melville's novels, the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and favorably reviewed Henry David Thoreau's Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Simms published numerous review essays of twenty thousand or more words in literary journals and also republished two collections in book form. These volumes treated such subjects as Americanism in literature and the American Revolution in South Carolina. Yet, as part two of Selected Reviews demonstrates, Simms ranged much more widely in the intellectual milieu. Such cultural and political topics as the 1848 revolution in France, the history of the literary essay, the roles of women in the American Revolution, and the activities of the southern convention in Nashville in 1850 captured Simms's attention. Moltke-Hansen's introduction to part two examines Simms's roles in, and responses to, the Romantic critical revolution and the other revolutions then roiling Europe and America.
Download or read book The Sword and the Distaff Or Fair Fat and Forty Dodo Press written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South whose novels achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. He first wrote poetry at the age of eight, and in his 19th year he produced a monody on Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1825). Two years later, in 1827, Lyrical and Other Poems and Early Lays appeared. He then published Tile Vision of Cones, Cain and Other Poems (1829), The Tricolor; or, Three Days of Blood in Paris (1830) and his strongest poem, Atalantis: A Tale of the Sea (1832). His novel Martin Faber, an expanded version of an earlier short story called The Confessions of a Murderer, was published in 1833 and made Simms known to a national audience. He was one of the best, and most respected, historians of his day. His History of South Carolina (1842) served for several generations as the standard school textbook on the state's history. Other works include: The Yemassee (1835), Vasconselos (1853) and The Cassique of Kiawah (1859).
Download or read book Long Years of Neglect written by William Gilmore Simms and published by SIMMs. This book was released on 1988 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this collection of essays, the literary record of one of the first and most important men of letters from the South is finally reevaluated from the critical perspective time provides. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a poet, critic, novelist, and correspondent whose accomplishment has long been overshadowed by the events of history. As a leading writer and advocate of the antebellum south, Simms suffered from the mercurial judgments of the established publishing and literary circles of the North. Since his death he has slipped into relative obscurity with the inability or unwillingness of most of his critics to separate Simms's artistic achievements from what have been perceived as flaws in his character. Together witht he collected letters of Simms--coedited by T.C. Duncan Eaves, to whose memory this book is dedicated--the essays included in Long Years of Neglect can now begin to rectify the damage done over time to the reputation of Simms and his writing, to supersede the options of the past with scholarly and critical appraisal of the work itself, and to offer fresh insight into William Gilmore Simms as a significant and intriguing figure in early American letters. As editor Guilds speculates in his introduction, "It is conceivable that replacing myth with fact will become fashionable in Simms scholarship, and, even more important, that reading the works--instead of reading the reasons they should be avoided--will become standard practice for Simms as it is for other authors of his stamp." It was the aim of this book to initiate the realization of that goal.
Download or read book The Sword and the Distaff written by William Gilmore Simms and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Richard Hurdis written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Works of William Gilmore Simms written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Gilmore Simms as Editor and Literary Critic written by Edward Thomas Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critical Study of the Novels of William Gilmore Simms written by Della Lee Brackett and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Nationalism to Secessionism written by Charles S. Watson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many Southerners before the Civil War, William Gilmore Simms changed from a nationalist to a secessionist. Charles Watson illustrates this transformation through a step-by-step examination of Simms' literary works, which express the changing attitudes of other, more inarticulate Southerners, who found a voice in Simms' fiction. In the first half of his career, from 1825 to 1848, Simms wrote as a national author, composing patriotic romances. But, when the political conflict over slavery worsened, starting with the Wilmot Proviso, which prohibited the westward expansion of slavery, Simms became an uncompromising proponent of Secession.
Download or read book The Yemassee written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Gilmore Simms as Literary Critic written by Edd Winfield Parks and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charlemont written by William Gilmore Simms and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charlemont" from William Gilmore Simms. Poet, novelist and historian from the American South (1806-1870).
Download or read book Guy Rivers A Tale Of Georgia written by William Gilmore Simms and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Guy Rivers" by William Gilmore Simms is a captivating example of Southern Gothic literature that delves into the intricacies of morality and justice in the antebellum South. Set against the backdrop of the American frontier, Simms weaves a tale of intrigue, betrayal, and redemption. The novel follows the eponymous protagonist, Guy Rivers, a complex character who grapples with his own moral compass as he navigates through a world rife with corruption and violence. As Rivers confronts the consequences of his actions and struggles with his inner demons, Simms offers readers a poignant exploration of the human condition. Through vivid descriptions and rich character development, Simms creates a hauntingly atmospheric narrative that transports readers to a bygone era of Southern society. Themes of guilt, redemption, and the search for meaning permeate the story, leaving a lasting impression on readers long after they have turned the final page. "Guy Rivers" stands as a testament to Simms' literary talent and remains a timeless classic in the canon of Southern literature, showcasing the author's keen insight into the complexities of human nature.
