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 Gerstäcker: American and German literary perspectives and parallels / Sabine Schmidt.
Summary:
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.
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