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South-Carolina in the Revolutionary WarReviews/Essays | Walker & James, Publishers | 1853 Throughout his life, William
Gilmore Simms was deeply invested in researching and interpreting the history
of the American Revolution and was particularly concerned with promoting the
participation of his native South Carolina in that conflict. As evidenced by his biographies of Francis
Marion and Nathanael Greene, his series of epic romances of the Revolution
largely set in South Carolina, and his emphasis on the Revolution in his The History of South Carolina, Simms’s
understanding of South Carolina’s role in the conflict was one of patriotism
and heroic self-sacrifice. ... |
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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 ... |