William Gilmore Simms

Simms, William Gilmore - 1806–70, American novelist, b. Charleston, S.C. He wrote prolifically, both prose and poetry, but it is for his historical romances about his own state that he is remembered and often compared with James Fenimore Cooper. His tales of the Southern frontier include Guy Rivers (1834) and Beauchampe (1842; one part rewritten as Charlemont, 1856); those of colonial Read More...

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William Gilmore Simms (1892)
by William P. Trent. 352 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Chapter I: The Early Years

Chapter II: Seeking a Vocation

Chapter III: A Vocation Found

Chapter IV: A Prolific Romancer

Chapter V: New Phases of Literary Activity

Chapter VI: Romantic Dreams and Political Nightmares

Chapter VII: The War

Chapter VIII: Last Years

Appendix

Index
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William Gilmore Simms as Literary Critic
by Edd Winfield Parks. 152 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter I: Simms Self-Revealed

Chapter III: On Poetry and Poets

Chapter IV: On Dramas and Dramatists

Chapter V: Nationalism and Sectionalism

Chapter VI: A Summing Up

Notes

Index
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The Yemassee
by William Gilmore Simms, Alexander Cowie. 402 pgs.

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American Fiction Series

The Yemassee

Preface

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

A Simms Chronology

Selected Bibliography

The Yemassee Uprising

Note on the Text

To Professor Samuel Henry Dickson, M.D., of South Carolina

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Chapter XXI

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIV

Chapter XXV

Chapter XXVI

Chapter XXVII

Chapter XXVIII

Chapter XXIX

Chapter XXX

Chapter XXXI

Chapter XXXII

Chapter XXXIII

Chapter XXXIV

Chapter XXXV

Chapter XXXVI

Chapter XXXVII

Chapter XXXVIII

Chapter Xxxix

Chapter XL

Chapter XLI

Chapter XLII

Chapter XLIII

Chapter XLIV

Chapter XLV

Chapter XLVI

Chapter XLVII

Chapter XLVIII

Chapter Xlix

Chapter L

Chapter LI

Chapter LII
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The Life of Francis Marion
by W. Gilmore Simms. 348 pgs.

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Chapter I: Introduction.--The Huguenots in South Carolina.

Chapter III: Marion a Farmer.--Volunteers in the Cherokee Campaign.

Chapter IV: Cherokee War Continued.--Marion Leads the Forlorn Hope at The Battle of Etchoee.

Chapter V: 1775.--Marion is Returned to the Provincial Congress from St. John's, Berkeley.--Made Captain in the 2d Regiment.- Fort Johnson Taken.--Battle of Fort Moultrie.

Chapter VI: 1777-8-9--From the Battle of Fort Moultrie to That of Savan Nah--Anecdote of Jasper--His Death.

Chapter VII: From the Battle of Savannah to the Defeat of Gates at Camden.

Chapter VIII: Organization of "Marion's Brigade." Surprise of Tories Under Gainey-- Defeat of Barfield--Capture of British Guard With Prisoners at Nelson's Ferry.

Chapter IX: Marion Retreats Before a Superior Force--Defeats the Tories At Black Mingo--Surprises and Disperses the Force of Col. Tynes at Tarcote--Is Pursued by Tarleton.

Chapter X: Marion Attempts Georgetown--Horry Defeats Merritt -- Melton Defeated by Barfield--Gabriel Marion Taken by the Tories And Murdered--Marion Retires to Snow's Island.

Chapter XI: Marion's Camp at Snow's Island--The Character of His War Fare--Of His Men--Anecdotes of Conyers and Horry--He Feasts a British Officer on Potatoes--Quells a Mutiny.

Chapter XII: General Greene Assumes Command of the Southern Army--His Correspondence with Marion.--Condition of the Country. Marion and Lee Surprise Georgetown.--Col. Horry Defeats Gainey.--Marion Pursues Mc Ilraith.--Proposed Pitched Battle Between Picked Men.

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI: Marion Moves Secretly to Pon-Pon.--Rescues Col. Harden.--De Feats Major Frazier at Parker's Ferry.--Joins the Main Army Under Greene.--Battle of Eutaw.

Chapter XVII: Retreat of the British from Eutaw.--Pursuit of Them by Marion And Lee.--Close of the Year.

Chapter XVIII: Marion Summoned to the Camp of Greene.--Defeats the British Horse at St. Thomas.--Leaves His Command to Horry, And Takes His Seat in the Assembly at Jacksonborough, as Senator From St. John's, Berkely.--Proceedings of the Assembly.-- Confiscation Act.--Dispute Between Cols. Maham and Horry. --The Brigade of Marion Surprised, During His Absence, by A Detachment from Charleston.--Marion's Encounter with The British Horse.--Conspiracy in the Camp of Greene.

Chapter XIX: Marion Summoned with His Force to That of Greene.--Insurrec Tion of the Loyalists on the Pedee.--Marches Against Them-- Subdues Them.--Treats with Gainey.--Fanning.--Protects The Tory, Butler, from His Men.--Returns to the Country Between The Santee and the Cooper.--Moves to Protect Georgetown From the British Fleet.--Takes Post at Watboo, on Cooper River.--Defeats the British Cavalry Under Major Frasier.

Chapter XX: The British Propose Terms of Pacification--Rejected by the Civil Authorities--They Penetrate Combahee with Their Fleet-- Death of Col. Laurens--Anecdote of Marion--Death of Wil Mot--British Evacuate Charleston--Marion Separates from His Brigade at Watboo--His Military Genius.

Chapter XXI: Marion Retires to His Farm, Which He Finds in Ruins.--Is Returned To the Senate from St. John.--His Course on the Confiscation Act.--Anecdotes.--Is Made Commandant at Fort Johnson.-- His Marriage.--A Member of the State Convention in 1794.-- Withdraws from Public Life. His Death.
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"Foolish Talk 'Bout Freedom": Simms's Vision of America in the Yemassee, in Studies in the Novel
by Vincent King. 9 pgs.

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William Gilmore Simms
by J. V. Ridgely. 144 pgs.

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William Gilmore Simms

Preface

Acknowledgments

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Chronology

Chapter 1 the Writer as Southerner

Chapter 2 "My Works Are Romances"

Chapter 3 the Lonely Traveler

Chapter 4 the Epic Struggle

Chapter 5 the Avenger of Blood

Chapter 6 Black Riders

Chapter 7 the Road Back

Chapter 8 the South Triumphant

Chapter 9 "I Am a Southron"

Notes and References

Selected Bibliography

Index
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From Nationalism to Secessionism: The Changing Fiction of William Gilmore Simms
by Charles S. Watson, Jon L. Wakelyn. 186 pgs.

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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.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in American History

Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

1: The Southern Writer as Nationalist

NOTES

2: A New American Novelist

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3: Southern Model for the West

NOTES

4: American Ideals in Spain and Spanish America

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5: Young America and Literary Sectionalism

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6: The Signs of Change

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7: Militant Sectionalism

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8: Predicting Secession

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10: Defending the Lost Cause

NOTES

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America (Chap. 6 "William Gilmore Simms and the Necessity of Speech")
by James Perrin Warren. 202 pgs.

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Americans of the early Republic valued the art of eloquence, upholding the ideal that an impassioned, intelligent, and moral speaker will provide essential truths to a democratic audience. Drawing on nonfiction prose of the 1830s-1850s -- especially orations, lectures, and addresses -- James Perrin Warren sketches a cultural history of the reforming power of language.
Antebellum America truly defined itself as a culture of eloquence. This disposition could be seen in the creation of new cultural spaces, such as the lyceum and popular lecture system, for speakers who were then measured against the ideals of eloquence held by their listeners. Defining eloquence as "powerful, moving speech, " Warren engages a host of writers/ orators to develop his argument, beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy of language in the 1830s and expanding his discussion to include the theories and practices of Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody, Frederick Douglass, William Gilmore Simms, and Walt Whitman. From this list he outlines practices that crossed the boundaries of gender, race, and class, ultimately showing that diverse sectors of society valued the word as a means toward reform.
Powerful words move people to action, and Warren clearly delineates the authority accorded oratory in antebellum America. This book will appeal to a wide audience, including those interested in antebellum American culture, American literature and cultural history, literary criticism, and rhetoric.

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1: Culture of Eloquence

2 :: "Ferries and Horses"

3: Henry Thoreau's Tawny Grammar

4: Fuller, Peabody, and the Mother Tongue

5: A Fruitful Nursery of Orators: Frederick Douglass and the Conditions for Eloquence

6: William Gilmore Simms and the Necessity of Speech

7: Whitman's Agonistic Arena

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Antebellum Charleston Dramatists (Chap. V "William Gilmore Simms")
by Charles S. Watson. 186 pgs.

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Independence, Or Which Do You LIke Best, the Peer, Or the Farmer? A Comedy, in Five Acts.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface

The Charles on Theaer

Ii Dramatic Writing, 1797 to the Civil War

Iii William Ioor

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V William Gilmore Simms

Vi Conclusions: Carleston Dramatists and American Drama

Appendix Principal Charleston Dramatists

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index
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The Chief Glory of Every People: Essays on Classic American Writers (Chap. 9 "William Gilmore Simms")
by Matthew J. Bruccoli. 295 pgs.

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Preface

1: Fenimore Cooper: The Development of the Novelist

2: Stephen Crane in Our Time

3: The Relevance of John Dewey's Thought

4: Mr. Emerson--of Boston

5: Consistency in the Mind and Work of Hawthorne

6: William Dean Howells Perception and Ambivalence

7: Washington Irving: Nonsense, the Fat of the Land and the Dream of Indolence

8: Herman Melville, 1972

9: William Gilmore Simms

10: Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Poluphloisboios Thalassa

11: Mark Twain: The Triumph of Humor

12: Walt Whitman's Omnisexual Vision

Notes-Index

Notes

Index
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The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Chap. Two "'Our Sacred Union,' 'Our Beloved Appalachia': Nation and Genius Loci in Hawthorne and Simms")
by John D. Kerkering. 351 pgs.

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Examining the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, John Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Hawthorne and Whitman used poetic effect to emphasize the distinctiveness of certain groups against a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering tells the story of how poetry helped define America as a nation before helping to define America into distinct racial categories. He concludes that through a shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities become related elements of a single literary history.

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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: the Poetics of Identity

Part I: The Poetics of National Identity

Chapter One: “we Are Five-And-Forty”: Meter and National Identity in Sir Walter Scott

Chapter Two: “our Sacred Union, ” “our Beloved Apalachia”: Nation and Genius Loci in Hawthorne and Simms

Part II: The Poetics of Racial Identity

Chapter Three: “of Me and of Mine”: the Music of Racial Identity

Chapter Four: “blood Will Tell”: Literary Effects and the Diagnosis of Racial Instinct

Conclusion: the Conservation of Identities

Notes

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Index
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American Renaissance Poetry and the Topos of Positionality: Genius Mundi and Genius Loci in Walt Whitman and William Gilmore Simms, in Victorian Poetry
by John D. Kerkering. 25 pgs.

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The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860 (Discussion of William Gilmore Simms begins on p. 141)
by John McCardell. 394 pgs.

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The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Duty Bound to Interpose

Chapter Two: The Great Distinguishing Characteristic

Chapter Three: The Degrading Shackles of Commercial Dependence

Chapter Four: A Southern Republic of Letters

Chapter Five: Northern Domination in Our Schools and Pulpits

Chapter Six: The Mission and Destiny Allotted to the Anglo-Saxon Race

Chapter Seven: The Man and the Hour Have Met

Conclusion

Appendix I: Southern Population Data, 1790-1860

Appendix II: South Carolina During the Nullification Era

Appendix III: Leadership Groups in the Nullification Crisis

Appendix IV: Attitude and Subject of Articles in the Southern Literary Messenger, 1848-61

Appendix V: Southern Education and Religion Data to I860

Appendix VI: Methodology

Essay on Sources

Index
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The South in American Literature, 1607-1900 (Discussion of William Gilmore Simms begins on p. 572)
by Jay B. Hubbell. 990 pgs.

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Foreword

Contents

I the Colonial Period 1607-1765

Ii the American Revolution 1765-1789

Iii the Era of Good Feeling 1789-1830

Iv the Road to Disunion 1830-1865

V the New South 1865-1900

Vi Epilogue the Twentieth Century

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Index
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William Gilmore Simms: Deviant Paradigms of Southern Womanhood?, in The Mississippi Quarterly
by Debra Johanyak. 16 pgs.

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William Gilmore Simms, Woodlands, and the Freedmen's Bureau, in The Mississippi Quarterly
by Robert R. Singleton. 18 pgs.

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