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Title:

William Gilmore Simms's unfinished Civil War : consequences for a southern man of letters / edited by David Moltke-Hansen ; foreword by David S. Shields.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xix, 268 p.; 24 cm.

Subject:

Simms, William Gilmore,--1806-1870--Political and social views.
Simms, William Gilmore,--1806-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
United States--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
United States--Literature and the war.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
Southern States--Literature and the war.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
Southern States--In literature.
Southern States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Other Authors:

Moltke-Hansen, David.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.

Contents:

When history failed : William Gilmore Simms's artistic negotiation of the Civil War's consequences / David Moltke-Hansen -- Imagining the Swamp Fox : William Gilmore Simms and the national memory of Francis Marion / Steven D. Smith -- Private vs. public honor in wartime South Carolina : William Gilmore Simms in lecture, letter, and history / Todd Hagstette -- The demands of citizenship in the Confederate Republic : Simms, Confederate nationalism, and the Civil War / Jeffery J. Rogers -- Isaac Nimmons and the burning of woodlands : power, paternalism, and the performance of manhood in William Gilmore Simms's Civil War South / Ehren Foley -- Delusions carnival of death : a different war poetry from the South / Johanna Shields -- Simms, the Civil War, and the poetry of trauma / Matthew C. Brennan -- Simms's last poems and the artifice of eternity / James Everett Kibler -- Reading regionalism across the war : Simms and the literary imagination of postbellum literary magazines / Keri Holt -- An unfinished reconstruction : Simms's The brothers of the coast / Nicholas G. Meriwether -- How William Gilmore Simms had his cake and ate it too : the indirect polemic in Sharp snaffles / Kevin Collins -- The angel and the animal / Sara Georgini -- A sense of things to come : redefining gender and promoting the lost cause in the sense of the beautiful / John D. Miller.

Series:

William Gilmore Simms initiatives : texts and studies series

ISBN:

161117130X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781611171303 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)808930413

LCCN:

2012033261

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)