A01=William Gilmore Simms
Author_William Gilmore Simms
Biography
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Fiction
Historical romance
James Fenimore Cooper
John Laurens
Literary realism
Literature
Manifest destiny
Novel
Novelist
Old South
Origins of the American Civil War
Poetry
Romanticism
Slavery
White Southerners
William Gilmore Simms
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781611170627
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2014
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative editions of out of print works by William Gilmore Simms, antebellum South Carolina's preeminent man of letters.
This is one of the author's early Revolutionary War romances, this ""Legend of the Santee"" dramatises the guerrilla warfare tactics and swampland raids of Francis Marion.
This is one of the author's early Revolutionary War romances, this ""Legend of the Santee"" dramatises the guerrilla warfare tactics and swampland raids of Francis Marion.
William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 - June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. He is still known among literary scholars as a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He is also remembered for his strong support of slavery and for his opposition to Uncle Tom's Cabin, in response to which he wrote reviews and a novel.
Former head of the South Carolina Historical Society, the Southern Historical Collection, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, David Moltke-Hansen served as the founding director of the digital William Gilmore Simms Initiatives of the University of South Carolina, USA.
