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The Scout; or, the Black Riders of Congaree.Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 William Gilmore Simms’s third novel of the Revolutionary
War (though fifth in order of plot chronology) was originally published in 1841
under the title The Kinsmen. It became an early offering as part of the
Redfield edition under its more popularly-known title The Scout in 1854. A novel
of familial conflict in the context of war and a broad-minded exploration of
patriotism across classes, The Scout
opens shortly after the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill (aka the Second Battle of
Camden)[1] in May 1781. The action ends with the British departure
from the Star Fort at Ninety ... |
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The Sword and the Distaff; or, "Fair, Fat and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of RevolutionNovel (Romance) | Walker, Richards & Co. | 1852 Written in the “midst of one of the
most productive creative surges in his career,”[1]
Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the Dovecote:
A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution makes the most serious
and sustained claim as Simms’s masterpiece in the novel form.[2] The fifth novel composed in Simms’s saga of
the American Revolution, it is set during the chaotic close and aftermath of
the war. This makes it the last (eighth)
Revolutionary Romance in terms of chronological action. As the work opens, the
British are evacuating Charleston in December 1782. Then the novel shifts ... |
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The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems.Poetry | James S. Burges, 44 Queen Street | 1829
The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems, Simms's fourth separate
publication, was issued in the summer of
1829. Like his three previous works,
it is a volume of poetry. Comprised primarily of the three long poems “The Vision of Cortes,” “Cain,” and “Ashley River,” the volume also contains a number of shorter works, some of which had been previously published in other venues. The subject
matter of the volume ranges widely, moving from the title poem, which recalls in verse the 1518
expedition of Hernán
Cortés into Mexico,
to an ode to South Carolina’s ... |
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The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina.Novel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1835 The Yemassee is historically the best known of
the long fictions of William Gilmore Simms.
Set on the South Carolina frontier, Simms’s third book-length fiction
treats the Yemassee War of 1715-17, when the Yemassee Indians, with their
Spanish and Native American allies, attacked the low country colonial
settlements. Writing in the midst of the
removal of natives from east of the Mississippi to the newly created Indian
Territory in the future Oklahoma, Simms emphasized such motives for the war as
the colonists’ need for land, the conflict between rival European powers ... |
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Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the DovecoteNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 Written in the “midst of one of the
most productive creative surges in his career,”[1]
Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the Dovecote:
A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution makes the most serious
and sustained claim as Simms’s masterpiece in the novel form.[2] The fifth novel composed in Simms’s saga of
the American Revolution, it is set during the chaotic close and aftermath of
the war. This makes it the last (eighth)
Revolutionary Romance in terms of chronological action. As the work opens, the
British are evacuating Charleston in December 1782. Then the novel shifts ... |