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- Creator: W. Gilmore Simms (x)
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Marie de Berniere: A Tale of the Crescent City, Etc. Etc. Etc.Novella | Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. | 1853 Marie de Berniere: A Tale of the Crescent City is a collection of stories published in
1853 by Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. of Philadelphia. In addition to the title story, the
collection includes “The Maroon” and “Maize in Milk.” Each story was published serially prior to
the collection and gradually expanded from its serial version into novella form. In a 20 June 1853 to James Henry Hammond,
Simms mentioned “collecting my scattered novellettes & tales. You have probably seen ‘Marie de Berniere
&c.’ This will be followed up by other vols. of similar ... |
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The Life of the Chevalier BayardBiography | Harper & Brothers | 1847 For Simms, it
was in a time “when chivalry was at its lowest condition in Christian Europe,” that
the Chevalier Bayard provided the world, “the happiest illustration, in a
single great example, of its ancient pride and character,” and “the most
admirable model to the generous ambition of the young that we find in all the
pages of history.”[1] Simms wrote The Life of Chevalier Bayard, a biography of the late-medieval
French knight, to serve as an archetype of virtue for Americans. In 1845, Simms had written two articles on
Bayard for Southern and Western[2],
and ... |
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Views and Reviews in American Literature, History and FictionReviews/Essays | Wiley and Putnam | 1845 - 1846 Part of the Wiley and Putnam’s highly influential Library of American
Books, Simms’s two-volume Views and
Reviews in American Literature, History and Fiction, shows the author
theorizing the “American” aspects of American literature, as well as the
relationship between America’s history and its imaginative writing. In this, we can see Simms presenting and
promoting the cultural agenda of the “Young America” movement, whose members
included Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne. Views and Reviews is thus a central text
in understanding the struggle for defining American literature ... |