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As Good as a Comedy and Paddy McGannNovel (Romance) | U of South Carolina P | 1972 As Good as a Comedy and Paddy McGann are two short novels that
reveal Simms’s talents as a comedic writer. While other works, like Border
Beagles, contain humorous sections or characters, these two works stand out
as sustained comedic successes. In these, Simms shows an understanding of
and skill at utilizing the tropes of frontier humor, popularized by the likes
of A.B. Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes, as well as a use of humor as
social commentary that foreshadowed the work of Twain. While each was
published previously, they were published together in one volume in 1972, ... |
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Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S. C.Journalism | Power Press of Daily Phœnix | 1865 One of the more important,
though most-lightly studied, of Simms’s works is Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, SC, a narrative
recounting of William Tecumseh Sherman’s entry into and occupation of South
Carolina’s capital city, and its subsequent destruction in the waning days of
the Civil War. Simms originally
published Sack and Destruction
serially in The Columbia Phoenix, “a
small newspaper edited by Simms that commenced publication in the waning weeks
of the Confederacy” from the newspaper’s first edition until 10 April 1865; after
the close of the War, ... |
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The Cub of the Panther: A Hunter Legend of the ''Old North State''Novel (Romance) | The University of Arkansas Press | 1997 In the closing years of his
life, William Gilmore Simms found himself physically unwell, near-indigent, and
living in a post-Civil War world that challenged his entire conception of
social order. Yet, out of this, Simms
produced one last great flourish of creativity, including The Cub of the Panther: A Hunter
Legend of the “Old North State.”
This novel shares certain features with the author’s earlier border
romances, exhibiting a similar interest in violence, comedy, and social
stratification. Yet, the different socio-political
circumstances of the postbellum world ... |
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The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 6, SupplementCorrespondence | U of South Carolina P | 2012 In his lifetime, William Gilmore Simms “was the author of thirty-four works of fiction,
nineteen volumes of poetry, three of drama, three anthologies, three volumes of
history, two of geography, six of biography, and twelve of reviews,
miscellanies and addresses, a total of eighty-two volumes.”[1] The estimate of the output was impressive, if not quite complete.[2] Regardless, Simms’s influence was unparalleled. No
mid-nineteenth-century writer and editor did more to frame white southern
self-identity and nationalism, shape southern historical consciousness, or
foster ... |
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The Sense of the Beautiful.Speech | Agricultural Society of South Carolina | 1870 Simms delivered The Sense of the Beautiful, his final
public oration, on May 3, 1870, a little over a month before his death.[1] The occasion was the first Floral Fair
held by the Charleston County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, a group
that would merge in August with the older and recently revived Agricultural
Society of South Carolina. In his
speech, Simms stressed the importance of natural beauty, a harmonious home
life, and female leadership. He praised
the spiritual value of the natural world and claimed that a stable domestic
sphere was a precondition for the progress ... |
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War Poetry of the SouthPoetry | Richardson & Company | 1866 In his study of the role of
guerilla warfare in the Civil War, historian Daniel E. Sutherland observes that
Southern authors, including William Gilmore Simms, played a significant role in
promoting and advancing guerilla tactics as both a patriotic duty and a means
of achieving victory; Sutherland notes that Simms had explicitly “promoted and
sanctified partisan warfare.”[1]
While the author’s works about
Revolutionary War figures like Thomas Sumter and Francis Marion were certainly
repurposed and newly understood in the context of the Civil War, Simms wrote
new poetry ... |