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  title info:
    title: Reading William Gilmore Simms
    sub title: essays of introduction to the author's canon
  name:
    name part: Hagstette, Todd
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: scu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 535 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: edited by Todd Hagstette.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [485]-514) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Simms, William Gilmore
      name part: 1806-1870
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Simms, William Gilmore
      name part: 1806-1870
  subject:
    topic: Authors, American
    temporal: 19th century
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
  classification: PS2853 .R43 2017
  classification: 818/.309
  related item:
    title info:
      title: William Gilmore Simms initiatives, texts, and studies
  identifier: 9781611177725
  identifier: 1611177723
  identifier: 2016057347
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170410
    record change date: 20171016141400.0
    record identifier: in00003885895