LEADER 03515oam 2200541 450 001 9910816041203321 005 20240123233235.0 010 $a1-64336-089-2 035 $a(CKB)5470000000002073 035 $a(OCoLC)1183958417 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6280810 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29316959 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29316959 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000002073 100 $a20201201d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWriting war and reunion $eselected Civil War and Reconstruction newspaper editorials /$fWilliam Gilmore Simms ; edited by Jeffery J. Rogers 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aColumbia, South Carolina :$cUniversity of South Carolina Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aWilliam Gilmore Simms Initiatives, Texts, and Studies 311 $a1-64336-090-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a novelist, poet, and essayist and was considered the South's premier literary figure at the height of his popularity. No less an authority than Edgar Allen Poe remarked of Simms that 'he has surpassed, we think, any of his countrymen' as a novelist. Simms's literary achievements include more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and biographies of important figures in American history. Perhaps the least considered parts of Simms's overall body of writings are those he did for newspapers, the most interesting of which are from the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Writing War and Reunion offers a selection of the best of those so that we can track Simms's thoughts about, and reactions to, the conflict, from its beginnings through to its conclusion and into the early years of Reconstruction. These works provide a valuable insight into how a prominent southern intellectual interpreted and participated in these momentous events in U.S. history. In the decades following the Civil War, Simms's reputation suffered a steady decline. Because of his associations with the antebellum South, slavery, and Confederate defeat, as well as changes in literary tastes, Simms came to be regarded as a talented but failed Southern author of a bygone era. Today a robust scholarly literature exists that has reexamined Simms, his literary works, and previous scholarly judgments and finds him to have been an important figure in the development of nineteenth-century American literature and worthy of serious study"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aWilliam Gilmore Simms initiatives, texts, and studies. 606 $aEditorials$zSouth Carolina$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEscriptors nord-americans$zCarolina del Sud$yS. XIX 606 $aDiaris$xSeccions, columnes, etc$xEditorials$zCarolina del Sud 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865 615 0$aEditorials$xHistory 615 4$aEscriptors nord-americans 615 4$aDiaris$xSeccions, columnes, etc$xEditorials 676 $a813.3 700 $aSimms$b William Gilmore$f1806-1870$0445510 702 $aRogers$b Jeffery J$g(Jeffery Joel) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816041203321 996 $aWriting war and reunion$94008356 997 $aUNINA