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The Cassique of Kiawah: A Colonial RomanceBritish Colonial History | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1859 The Cassique of Kiawah, thought by many critics of
Simms’s own time and several modern scholars to be the author’s best work, is a
colonial romance about the early days of Charleston. Setting the book in
the 1680s, Simms robustly describes the competing claims of the English and
Spanish over Charleston and its environs, including the attendant violence and
actions of Spanish pirates and English privateers. In so doing, he
presents a vision of Charleston that was not genteel and sophisticated, but
rather raucous and frontier-like; Simms thus usedThe Cassique of Kiawah to
critique ... |
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EutawRevolutionary History | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856
Eutaw,
published by Redfield on 19 April 1856, is the sequel to The Forayers,
and the penultimate romance in Simms's Revolutionary War saga[1]. It completes the story of the British withdrawal
from their outpost at Ninety-Six, including the battle of Eutaw Springs, the
last major engagement of the Carolina theatre, and its aftermath. Simms’s biographer John Caldwell Guilds notes
that it is necessary to understand Eutaw as a sequel, as it was “not a
new venture but the extension and completion of a scheme which kept expanding
in the author's fertile imagination.”[2] ... |
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Border Beagles: A Tale of MississippiAntebellum Period | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1855 In The Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms,
Mary Ann Wimsatt argues that Border Beagles, the sequel to the
scandalous Richard Hurdis, shows Simms as continuing to explore the
contentious relationship between the older, civilized tidewater south and the
wild trans-mountain frontier.[1]
While thus continuing a theme begun with Guy Rivers and Richard
Hurdis, Border Beagles saw Simms decidedly scaling back
the violence found in those two books, especially the latter. Here, the
author’s presentation of the chaos and dangers of the frontier is tempered by
humor, with ... |
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Charlemont; or, The Pride of the VillageAntebellum Period | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 Early in the
morning of 7 November 1825, in the town of Frankfort, KY, a young lawyer named
Jereboam O. Beauchamp crept to the house of the state attorney general, Solomon
P. Sharp, and stabbed him to death. The
murder was orchestrated to avenge the honor of Anna Cook[1],
Beauchamp’s wife, who as a single woman had been seduced, impregnated, and
abandoned by Sharp[2]. The event was a national sensation
immediately following its discovery and Beauchamp’s capture days later. Following Cook and Beauchamp’s failed joint
suicide attempt and the latter’s subsequent execution, ... |