Helen Halsey: a Tale of the Borders (c)

Helen Halsey: a Tale of the Borders (c)
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 1610751825
ISBN-13 : 9781610751827
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Synopsis Helen Halsey: a Tale of the Borders (c) by : William Gilmore Simms

Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York ...

Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York ...
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Total Pages : 518
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015023478814
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Synopsis Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York ... by : Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York

Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York

Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York
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Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0019380231
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Synopsis Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York by : Mercantile Library Association (N.Y.)

Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms

Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 0807125261
ISBN-13 : 9780807125267
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Synopsis Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms by : Mary Ann Wimsatt

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.

Simms: a Literary Life (p)

Simms: a Literary Life (p)
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 161075381X
ISBN-13 : 9781610753814
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis Simms: a Literary Life (p) by : John Caldwell Guilds

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.

The Simms Reader

The Simms Reader
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 0813920191
ISBN-13 : 9780813920191
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Synopsis The Simms Reader by : William Gilmore Simms

Long considered a leading literary figure of the Old South, William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) wrote letters, novels, short fiction, drama, essays, and poetry in his prolific career. Born in Charleston to an old South Carolina family of modest means and raised by a grandmother with whom his father left him after his mother's death, Simms felt a simultaneous sense of loyalty to and alienation from his native region. He was a major intellectual figure on the East Coast before the Civil War but saw his New York publishers abandon him after secession, of which he was a vocal supporter. Simms's novels and poetry have been published in modern editions, and he has been the subject of numerous biographies and critical studies, but until now there has been no collection covering the broad spectrum of his writings. The Simms Reader presents a selection of his nonnovelistic work--letters, short fiction, essays, historical writings, poetry, and epigrams--chosen and introduced by the preeminent Simms scholar John Caldwell Guilds.

The Dramatic Authors of America

The Dramatic Authors of America
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Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0018130573
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Synopsis The Dramatic Authors of America by : James Rees

A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)

A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 598
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ISBN-10 : 9783750481442
ISBN-13 : 375048144X
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged) by : Montague Summers

An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.