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Joscelyn: A Tale of the RevolutionRevolutionary History | Novel (Romance) | U of South Carolina P | 1975 Although written and
published last among his eight Revolutionary novels in 1867, Joscelyn should be
placed first in the series chronologically, for it lays out the preliminaries
and “origins of this partisan conflict.”[1] Set in the final six months of 1775, the
romance depicts the beginnings of the Revolutionary conflict between patriots
and loyalists in the backcountries of Georgia and South Carolina. Simms mixed
historical figures, such as William Henry Drayton and Thomas Browne, with
fictional ones to illustrate the dramatic tensions and implications of the
early partisan ... |
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Stories and TalesEra of the Early Republic | Short Stories | U of South Carolina P | 1974 Stories and Tales is Volume V of the
University of South Carolina’s Centennial
Edition of the writings of William Gilmore Simms[1]. This volume contains fifteen stories and
tales, chronologically presented, collecting writings from all phases of
Simms’s career. [2] Simms wrote short fiction, often of wildly
inconsistent quality, throughout his long career; his best fiction was praised
by Poe, while his poorer fiction was often self-consciously born out of
economic necessity[3]. Simms published his short fiction widely both
in a variety of periodicals and multiple book-length ... |
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As Good as a Comedy and Paddy McGannAntebellum Period | Novel (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, ... |