William Gilmore Simms and the American frontier /
Guilds, John Caldwell,1924-
Collins, Caroline.
Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870
Historical fiction, American
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.