Reading William Gilmore Simms (eBook)

Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon

Todd Hagstette (Herausgeber)

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2017
552 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-61117-773-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Todd Hagstette is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina Aiken, former director of the Simms Initiatives for the South Caroliniana Library, and founding director of the Digital U.S. South project for the University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies. Hagstette is coeditor, with John Mayfield, of The Field of Honor: Essays on Southern Character and American Identity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Projects of the Simms Initiatives
• Reihe/Serie: Simms Initiatives
• Reihe/Serie: William Gilmore Simms Initiatives
• Reihe/Serie: William Gilmore Simms Initiatives
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Arthur Dimmesdale • Charles Brockden Brown • Edmund Ruffin • F. O. Matthiessen • Francis Marion • Henry William Herbert • James Fenimore Cooper • James Shirley • John L. O'Sullivan • man of letters • Mintz • Nathanael Greene • Nineteenth century • Philip Massinger • Renaissance Man • simms • southern history • Thomas Holley Chivers • William Faulkner • William Gilmore Simms • William Hazlitt • William Makepeace Thackeray • William Moultrie • William Porcher Miles • William Roscoe
• ISBN-10: 1-61117-773-1 / 1611177731
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-773-2 / 9781611177732