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03468aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 32817636FC1E11E7B7150C4F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180118010544 008 160303s2016 gau b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9780820350387 020 $a 0820350389 035 $a (OCoLC)942838750 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d ISM $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a n-usu-- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-usu 050 4 $a PS2853 $b .W554 2016 245 00 $a William Gilmore Simms and the American frontier / $c edited by John Caldwell Guilds and Caroline Collins. 250 $a Paperback edition. 264 1 $a Athens : $b University of Georgia Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xi, 276 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Between plantation and frontier: the South of William Gilmore Simms / David Moltke-Hansen -- The American frontier: romance and reality / Elliott West -- The "untrodden path": Richard Hurdis and Simms's foray into literary realism / John Caldwell Guilds -- William Gilmore Simms's Guy Rivers and the frontier / Rayburn S. Moore -- Simms on the literary frontier; or, So long Miss Ravenel and hello Captain Porgy: Woodcraft is the first "realistic" novel in America / Jan Bakker -- Simms's concept of romance and his realistic frontier / Caroline Collins -- Simms's Border beagles: a carnival of frontier voices / Thomas L. McHaney -- Simms's frontier: a collision of cultures / Nancy Grantham -- Voices along the border: language and the Southern frontier in Guy Rivers: a tale of Georgia / David W. Newton -- Frontier humor and the "Arkansas traveler" motif in Southward ho! / Mary Ann Wimsatt -- Southwestern humor in The wigwam and the cabin / Molly Boyd -- Facing the monster: William Gilmore Simms and Henry Clay Lewis / Edwin T. Arnold -- Irish folklore influences on Simms's "Sharp snaffles" and "Bald-head Bill Bauldy" / Gerard Donovan -- Stewardship and Patria in Simms's frontier poetry / James E. Kibler -- The cub of the panther: a new frontier / Miriam J. Shillingsburg -- John A. Murrell and the imaginations of Simms and Faulkner / Dianne C. Luce -- William Gilmore Simms and Friedrich GerstaÌcker: American and German literary perspectives and parallels / Sabine Schmidt. 520 $a William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creation of national literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his portrayal of America's westward migration. 600 10 $a Simms, William Gilmore, $d 1806-1870 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Historical fiction, American $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105681 650 0 $a National characteristics, American, in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007417 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004305 651 0 $a Southern States $x In literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111638 651 0 $a Southwest, Old $x In literature. 700 1 $a Guilds, John Caldwell, $d 1924- $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87903774 700 1 $a Collins, Caroline, $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94092150 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214013254.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=32817636FC1E11E7B7150C4F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search