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William Gilmore Simms's "Carl Werner" is set in the deepest parts of the German forest, based on an ancient legend. The narrator and his friend discuss ghost stories, which are birthed out of…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534585/Helen-Halsey-or-The-Swamp-State-of-Conelachita
While one of the lesser-known of Simms's border romances, the novella Helen Halsey is nevertheless a strong work. The frontier adventure of Helen Halsey, like many of Simms's other border roma…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534574/South-Carolina-in-the-Revolutionary-War
Throughout his life, William Gilmore Simms was deeply invested in researching and interpreting the history of the American Revolution and was particularly concerned with promoting the particip…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534573/Slavery-in-America-and-Father-Abbott
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Simms possessed a deep and abiding interest in English authors, as well as dramatic aspirations, making this work on A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare a logical task for a man w…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534570/The-Life-of-Francis-Marion
The Life of Francis Marion is a biography of the legendary "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolution. Simms's goal in writing the biography was to show Marion as a Washington-like figure who shou…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534569/Southward-HoI
Often categorized as one of the Simms;s novels, Southward Ho! is organized as a collection of short stories unified by the central narrative conceit of a group of storytelling passengers on a…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534564/Dramas
William Gilmore Simms's Norman Maurice was a lofty experiment, mixing contemporary politics with common language presented in the format of the Elizabethan tragedy. Written in strict blank ver…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534558/The-Remains-of-Maynard-Davis-Richardson
One of Simms's most personal works, The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson is an editorial project the writer undertook after his good friend Richardson's premature death in 1832. While detai…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534559/Selections-from-the-Letters-and-Speeches-of-the-Hon-James-H-Hammond
Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond compiles papers from this South Carolina congressman, governor, and senator.]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700