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SIMMs: A Literary Life
ISBN: 9781557283788 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Edgar Allan Poe viewed William Gilmore Simms in invention, in vigor, in movement, in the power of exciting interest, and in the artistical arrangement of his themes, as surpassing any of his countrymen. After the Civil War, long years of neglect tarnished Simms s reputation as the central figure in the literature of the Old South, as Jay B. Hubbell described him. However, as John Caldwell Guilds fully demonstrates here, the magnitude of Simms s achievement cannot be denied. Simms produced seventy-two book-length works, including novels, short story collections, poetry, drama, literary...
Edgar Allan Poe viewed William Gilmore Simms in invention, in vigor, in movement, in the power of exciting interest, and in the artistical arrangement...
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"long Years of Neglect": The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore SIMMs
ISBN: 9781557280282 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) With this collection of essays, the literary record of one of the first and most important men of letters from the South is finally reevaluated from the critical perspective time provides. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a poet, critic, novelist, and correspondent whose accomplishment has long been overshadowed by the events of history. As a leading writer and advocate of the antebellum south, Simms suffered from the mercurial judgments of the established publishing and literary circles of the North. Since his death he has slipped into relative obscurity with the inability or... With this collection of essays, the literary record of one of the first and most important men of letters from the South is finally reevaluated fro... |
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The Wigwam and the Cabin: The Arkansas Edition
ISBN: 9781557286246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wigwam and the Cabin focuses on the Southern frontier that Simms knew so well, a frontier whose vernacular, courage, humor, folklore, violence, injustice, and beauty are vividly brought to life through the strokes of his pen. I have seen the life, Simms wrote, -- have lived it -- and much of my material...is the planter, the squatter, the Indian, the negro -- the bold and hardy pioneer, the vigorous yeomen -- these are the subjects. Simms's portrayal of frontier life is the more realistic and graphic in all nineteenth-century American...
Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wigwam and the Cabin focuses on the Southern frontier that Simms knew so well, a frontier whose ...
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Arkansas, Arkansas 1 : Writers and Writings from the Delta to the Ozarks
ISBN: 9781557285232 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary writers as Maya Angelou, Ellen Gilchrist, and Miller Williams, Arkansas has enjoyed a rich history of letters. These two volumes gather the best work from Arkansas's rich literary history celebrating the variety of its voices and the national treasure those voices have become.
From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary writers as Maya Angelou, Ellen Gilchrist, and Mil...
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Arkansas, Arkansas Volume 2: Writers and Writings from the Delta to the Ozarks, the Contemporary Scene, 1970-Present
ISBN: 9781557285256 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary poets and prose writers as Maya Angelou and Ellen Gilchrist, Arkansas has enjoyed a rich history of letters. These voices have been, and still are, as various as the state's geography -- the Delta, the Arkansas River Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, and the Ozark Plateau. Available in two volumes, this anthology of writers from various genres -- journals, travel writing, biography, history, poetry, fiction -- reflects the state's unity as well as its sometimes extreme cultural, political, and...
From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary poets and prose writers as Maya Angelou and Ellen...
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The Poet's Holy Craft : William Gilmore Simms and Romantic Verse Tradition
ISBN: 9781570038884 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A thorough reexamination of Simms as a pioneering voice in American poetry
A thorough reexamination of Simms as a pioneering voice in American poetry
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Stories and Tales
ISBN: 9781611174816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 879 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative editions of out of print works by William Gilmore Simms, antebellum South Carolina's preeminent man of letters. Full content from these volumes will also be available online via www.sc.edu/library. As part of the inaugural effort, the six volumes of The Letters of William Gilmore Simms-first published by USC Press between 1952 and 1982-are also being reissued in their first paperback editions. Each volume also includes a new scholarly...
In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative ...
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William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier
ISBN: 9780820350387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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. Now being rediscovered by a new generation of scholars, Simms has come to be acknowledged as the ancestral father of modern southern literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his multifaceted portrayal of America's westward migration and examines his depictions of the frontier from traditional and theoretical perspectives. As a whole, these essays represent a tribute to Simms's achievement and versatility. This... William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creatio... |
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An Early and Strong Sympathy : The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms
ISBN: 9781570034411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Literary writings that reveal nineteenth-century perceptions of Native Americans; Novelist William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) and the Indians who lived in the southeast United States during the nineteenth century have shared a similar and unfortunate fate - both have been largely neglected in mainstream scholarship of literature and ethnohistory. In a volume that remedies this oversight, John Caldwell Guilds, an authority on Simms, and Charles Hudson, an authority on Southeastern Indians, collaborate to reveal fresh perspectives on both. They offer an anthology of Simms's writings that...
Literary writings that reveal nineteenth-century perceptions of Native Americans; Novelist William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) and the Indians who lived...
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The Forayers: Or the Raid of the Dog Days
ISBN: 9781557287410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published The Forayers in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create a prose epic through a series of linked novels detailing American history and struggles from early colonization to the mid-nineteenth century. The Forayers, which was the sixth book in his series of eight Revolutionary War novels set in the South, describes events around Orangeburg, South Carolina, before the Battle of Eutaw Springs (itself covered in this novel's sequel, Eutaw). It features such characters as Hell-fire Dick, a hardhearted,...
Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published The Forayers in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create ...
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