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Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Alabama
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPABR
Author : Duane Carr
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879727225
"Rednecks" have long been subjects of scorn and ridicule, especially in the South because of an antebellum caste and class system, parts of which persist to this day. In A Question of Class, Carr probes the historical and sociological reasons for the descent of "rednecks" into poverty, their inability to rise above it, and their continuing subjugation to a stereotype developed by others and too often accepted by themselves. Carr also records the progress in southern fiction of this negative stereotype - from antebellum writers who saw "rednecks" as threats to the social order, to post-Civil War writers who lamented the lost potential of these people and urged sympathy and understanding, to modern writers who reverted, in some sense, to Old South attitudes, and finally, to contemporary writers who point toward a more democratic acceptance of this much maligned group.
Author : Todd Hagstette
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611177732
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.
Author : John Caldwell Guilds
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 161075381X
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Literature
ISBN : PSU:000020205416
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : SRLF:A0004188926
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89007991151
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433081684858
Author : John Caldwell Guilds,Caroline Collins
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0820318876
William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creation of national literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his portrayal of America's westward migration.
Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813920191
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.
Author : J. Gerald Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190490614
After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal, immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves, Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at work behind the facade of American nation-building.
Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : American literature
ISBN : WISC:89013484183
Author : Caroline F. Levander,Robert S. Levine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119062516
A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the future of the subject. Offers up-to-date accounts of major new critical approaches to American literary studies Presents state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field Essays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study, and unprecedented material changes such as the digital revolution A unique anthology in the field, and an essential resource for libraries, faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates
Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030020659555
Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:097857650