William Gilmore Simms's unfinished Civil War
Subtitle: consequences for a southern man of letters
By: edited by David Moltke-Hansen ; foreword by David S. Shields
Series: William Gilmore Simms initiatives : texts and studies series
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781611171303
Subjects: History; Intellectual life; Influence; Literature and the war; In literature; Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: When history failed : William Gilmore Simms's artistic negotiation of the Civil War's consequences / David Moltke-Hansen; title: Imagining the Swamp Fox : William Gilmore Simms and the national memory of Francis Marion / Steven D. Smith; title: Private vs. public honor in wartime South Carolina : William Gilmore Simms in lecture, letter, and history / Todd Hagstette; title: The demands of citizenship in the Confederate Republic : Simms, Confederate nationalism, and the Civil War / Jeffery J. Rogers; title: Isaac Nimmons and the burning of woodlands : power, paternalism, and the performance of manhood in William Gilmore Simms's Civil War South / Ehren Foley; title: Delusions carnival of death : a different war poetry from the South / Johanna Shields; title: Simms, the Civil War, and the poetry of trauma / Matthew C. Brennan; title: Simms's last poems and the artifice of eternity / James Everett Kibler; title: Reading regionalism across the war : Simms and the literary imagination of postbellum literary magazines / Keri Holt; title: An unfinished reconstruction : Simms's The brothers of the coast / Nicholas G. Meriwether; title: How William Gilmore Simms had his cake and ate it too : the indirect polemic in Sharp snaffles / Kevin Collins; title: The angel and the animal / Sara Georgini; title: A sense of things to come : redefining gender and promoting the lost cause in the sense of the beautiful / John D. Miller.