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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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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 ... |