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An Early and Strong Sympathy: The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms
William Gilmore Simms
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Description for An Early and Strong Sympathy: The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms
Hardcover. This anthology identifies more than 100 works by William Gilmore Simms on the Indians who lived in the southeast USA. The passages range from romantic, poetic fantasies to attentive descriptions that are valuable primary resources for historians and anthropologists. Num Pages: 640 pages, 2 halftones, 1 line art. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1052.
Literary writings that reveal nineteenth-century perceptions of Native Americans; Novelist William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) and the Indians who lived in the southeast United States during the nineteenth century have shared a similar and unfortunate fate - both have been largely neglected in mainstream scholarship of literature and ethnohistory. In a volume that remedies this oversight, John Caldwell Guilds, an authority on Simms, and Charles Hudson, an authority on Southeastern Indians, collaborate to reveal fresh perspectives on both. They offer an anthology of Simms's writings that establishes him as a knowledgeable, prolific, and sympathetic portrayer of Native Americans in fiction and ... Read more
Literary writings that reveal nineteenth-century perceptions of Native Americans; Novelist William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) and the Indians who lived in the southeast United States during the nineteenth century have shared a similar and unfortunate fate - both have been largely neglected in mainstream scholarship of literature and ethnohistory. In a volume that remedies this oversight, John Caldwell Guilds, an authority on Simms, and Charles Hudson, an authority on Southeastern Indians, collaborate to reveal fresh perspectives on both. They offer an anthology of Simms's writings that establishes him as a knowledgeable, prolific, and sympathetic portrayer of Native Americans in fiction and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570034411
SKU
V9781570034411
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About William Gilmore Simms
The most widely published scholar and editor of Simms, John Caldwell Guilds has devoted more than four decades to the study of Simms and his works. Author of the prize-winning biography Simms: A Literary Life and editor of Selected Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Arkansas Edition, Guilds holds the Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Arkansas. Guilds ... Read more
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