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03731aam a22004338i 4500 001 EC8D4FDC939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 170410s2017 scu s000 0deng 010 $a 2016057347 020 $a 1611177723 (hardback) 020 $a 9781611177725 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)960835309 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS2853 $b .R43 2017 082 00 $a 818/.309 $2 23 084 $a HIS037060 $2 bisacsh 245 00 $a Reading William Gilmore Simms : $b essays of introduction to the author's canon / $c edited by Todd Hagstette. 263 $a 1707 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b University of South Carolina Press, $c 2017. 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a William Gilmore Simms Initiatives : texts and studies series 520 $a "William Gilmore Simms was the best known and certainly the most accomplished writer of the mid-nineteenth-century South. His literary ascent began early, with his first book being published when he was nineteen years old and his reputation as a literary genius secured before he turned thirty. Over a career that spanned nearly forty-five years, he established himself as the American South's premier man of letters -- an accomplished poet, novelist, short fiction writer, essayist, historian, dramatist, cultural journalist, biographer, and editor. In Reading William Gilmore Simms, Todd Hagstette has created an anthology of critical introductions to Simms's major publications, including those recently brought back into print by the University of South Carolina Press, offering the first ever primer compendium of the author's vast output. Simms was a Renaissance man of American letters, lauded in his time by both popular audiences and literary icons alike. Yet the author's extensive output, which includes nearly eighty published volumes, can be a barrier to his study. To create a gateway to reading and studying Simms, Hagstette has assembled thirty-eight essays by twenty-four scholars to review fifty-five Simms's works. Addressing all the author's major works, the essays provide introductory information and scholarly analysis of the most crucial features of Simms's literary achievement. Arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, the book also features a topical index for more targeted inquiry into Simms's canon. Detailing the great variety and astonishing consistency of Simms's thought throughout his long career as well as examining his posthumous reconsideration, Reading William Gilmore Simms bridges the author's genius and readers' growing curiosity. The only work of its kind, this book provides an essential passport to the far-flung worlds of Simms's fecund imagination. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Simms, William Gilmore, $d 1806-1870 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Simms, William Gilmore, $d 1806-1870. 600 17 $a Simms, William Gilmore, $d 1806-1870. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00051856 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821764 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 700 1 $a Hagstette, Todd, $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Reading William Gilmore Simms $d Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2017 $z 9781611177732 $w (DLC) 2017018485 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107013835.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EC8D4FDC939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search