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Count Julian; or, The Last Days of the GothNovel (Romance) | William Taylor & Co. | 1845 - 1846 While generally considered to be
one of Simms’s weakest novels, Count
Julian; or, the Last Days of the Goth provides one of the most intriguing
textual histories of any of the author’s numerous works. Conceived as a sequel to Simms’s 1838 novel Pelayo, Count Julian continues Simms’s fictional treatment of Medieval
Spain, dramatizing the legendary betrayal of Julian, Count of Cueta, an act that
helped lead to the Muslim conquest of Iberia.
The work suffered from multiple delays in both composition and publication
and was not published until 1845 or 1846, more ... |
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Pelayo: A Story of the GothNovel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1838 By the late 1830s, Simms’s
reputation and fame were on a steady rise; on the
strength of romances like The Yemassee and
The Partisan, Simms was widely
regarded as one of antebellum America’s finest writers. At this point, the always self-conscious
novelist made one of the more curious decisions of his literary career by
reworking a piece of verse-drama juvenilia into the novel Pelayo: A Story of the Goth,
published in two volumes by Harper & Brothers of New York in 1838. In writing Pelayo, Simms left the romantic epics of America’s history and
frontier on which ... |
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The History of South Carolina, from its First European Discovery to its Erection into a RepublicHistory | Redfield | 1860 Believing it
“necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly
for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant
history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There
is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a
history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable
South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding
school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ... |
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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 ... |
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