"William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a novelist, poet, and essayist and was considered the South's premier literary figure at the height of his popularity. No less an authority than Edgar Allan Poe remarked of Simms that 'he has surpassed, we think, any of his countrymen' as a...

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1. Verfasser:	Simms, William Gilmore 1806-1870 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Rogers, Jeffery J. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Columbia, South Carolina University of South Carolina Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	William Gilmore Simms initiatives : texts and studies series
Schlagworte:	Simms, William Gilmore / 1806-1870 Authors, American / South Carolina / 19th century Editorials / South Carolina / History / 19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 Écrivains américains / Caroline du Sud / 19e siècle Éditoriaux / Caroline du Sud / Histoire / 19e siècle États-Unis / Histoire / 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) Authors, American Editorials South Carolina United States 1800-1899 History
Zusammenfassung:	"William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a novelist, poet, and essayist and was considered the South's premier literary figure at the height of his popularity. No less an authority than Edgar Allan Poe remarked of Simms that 'he has surpassed, we think, any of his countrymen' as a novelist. Simms's literary achievements include more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and biographies of important figures in American history. Perhaps the least considered parts of Simms's overall body of writings are those he did for newspapers, the most interesting of which are from the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Writing War and Reunion offers a selection of the best of those so that we can track Simms's thoughts about, and reactions to, the conflict, from its beginnings through to its conclusion and into the early years of Reconstruction. These works provide a valuable insight into how a prominent southern intellectual interpreted and participated in these momentous events in U.S. history. In the decades following the Civil War, Simms's reputation suffered a steady decline. Because of his associations with the antebellum South, slavery, and Confederate defeat, as well as changes in literary tastes, Simms came to be regarded as a talented but failed Southern author of a bygone era. Today a robust scholarly literature exists that has reexamined Simms, his literary works, and previous scholarly judgments and finds him to have been an important figure in the development of nineteenth-century American literature and worthy of serious study"--
Beschreibung:	xxiii, 213 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:	9781643360898 1643360892