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Historical fiction, American --- Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870) --- History and criticism. --- Critique et interprétation --- Simms, William Gilmore, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Southern States --- In literature. --- Critique et interprétation

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Historical fiction, American --- Historiography --- Literature and history --- History and criticism --- Simms, William Gilmore, --- Knowledge --- History. --- South Carolina. --- South Carolina --- Historiography. --- In literature.

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"A primary source collection that offers a window into the mind of nineteenth-century author and public intellectual, William Gilmore Simms. William Gilmore Simms was in his lifetime considered the South's preeminent man of letters, and Edgar Allen Poe once claimed that Simms was 'immeasurably the greatest writer of fiction in America.' Best known as a poet, novelist, and editor, Simms was also a public intellectual who intended that his work shape public opinion and public discourse. In Honorable and Brilliant Labors, editor John D. Miller collects Simms's public orations, a body of literature that ranks among the least studied of Simms's writing. The orations are divided into four thematic parts, each with its own introduction, that frames the orations in their historical and cultural context. As a collection, these pieces reveal the voice of a literary artist attempting to define and make sense of his own society. Honorable and Brilliant Labors is the final volume of the Simms Initiatives, a collaboration between USC Press and USC Libraries that spans more than a decade of publishing and includes six scholarly volumes and more than sixty reprint editions"--

Authors, American --- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Speeches --- Political and social views. --- Simms, William Gilmore,

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John McWilliams's 1990 book was the first thorough account of the many attempts to fashion an epic literature (the anxiously anticipated 'American Epic') from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects. At the outset, McWilliams considers the many problems - cultural, political and literary' - of adapting Enlightenment views of republican progress to a genre that had traditionally celebrated the greatness of warriors. After a survey of the many epic poems written during and after the American Revolution, McWilliams shows how and why the epic had to be transformed from imitative narrative poetry into the new, open genres of prose history (Irving, Prescott and Parkman), fictional romance (Cooper and Melville) and free verse (Whitman). Believing that reviews are an important and slighted agent of literary change, McWilliams has written his book in the form of chronological literary history. His book, however, is no march of dates within tired categories. The American Epic suggests that imaginative writers of the Romantic era were in fact far less proscriptive about the boundaries of literary genre than many a twentieth-century writer and scholar.

Poetry --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Epic literature [American ] --- History and criticism --- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 --- 1783-1850 --- Barlow, Joel --- Criticism and interpretation --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Dwight, Timothy --- Melville, Herman --- Prescott, William Hickling --- Simms, William Gilmore --- Trumbull, John --- Whitman, Walt --- Irving, Washington --- Parkman, Francis --- Paulding, James Kirke --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Epic literature, American --- American epic literature --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Intellectual life

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The Southerner as American writer.--Simms and the wider world: Views and reviews.--William Gilmore Simms's picture of the Revolution as a civil war.--The influence of Scott and Cooper on Simms.--Simms and the British dramatists.--William Gilmore Simms and the American Renaissance.--The novel in the South.--The view from the Regency Hyatt.--Ellen Glasgow: the novelist of manners as social critic.--The dark, ruined Helen of his blood: Thomas Wolfe and the South.--The loneliness at the core.--Europe as catalyst for Thomas Wolfe.--The unity of Faulkner's Light in August.--Absalom, Absalom! The historian as detective.--Her rue with a difference.--Literature and culture: the fugitive-agrarians.--Three views of the real.

Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Fugitives (Group of writers) --- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. Views and Reviews --- Southern Renaissance --- Wolfe, Thomas Clayton, 1900-1938. Look Homeward, Angel --- American literature --- Littérature américaine --- Southern States in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Southern States --- Intellectual life. --- Littérature américaine --- History and criticism --- Simms, William Gilmore --- Criticism and interpretation --- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson --- Wolfe, Thomas Clayton --- Faulkner, William --- O'Connor, Flannery Mary --- Cabell, James Branch --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Intellectual life --- 20th century --- Caldwell, Erskine Preston --- Stribling, Thomas Sigismund --- Warren, Robert Penn --- Glasgow, Ellen, --- Wolfe, Thomas, --- Faulkner, William, --- Warren, Robert Penn, --- O'Connor, Flannery --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- Cooper, Fenimore --- American, --- Cooper, J. Fenimore --- Kuper, Džems Fenimor --- Kuper, Dzheĭms Fenimor --- Kuper, Fenimor --- Morgan, Jane --- Pioneers, Author of the --- Spy, Author of the --- Купер, Джеймс Фенимор --- קפר, פ., --- קופעער, ג'ימס --- קופער, פ., --- קופר, פ. --- קופר, ג׳אמס פנימור, --- Red, --- Уоррен, Роберт Пенн, --- Falkner, William, --- Fōkunā, Wiriamu, --- Фолкнер, Уильям, --- Folkner, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Fo-kʻo-na, --- Phōkner, Ouilliam, --- Fo-kʻo-na, Wei-lien, --- Fu-kʻo-na, --- Fu-kʻo-na, Wei-lien, --- Falkner, William Cuthbert, --- Pʻookʻŭnŏ, William, --- Foḳner, Ṿilyam, --- Pʻolkneri, Uiliam, --- K̲apākn̲ar, Villiyam, --- Fāknir, Vīlīyām, --- פוקנר --- פוקנר, וויליאם --- פוקנר, ויליאם, --- פוקנר, ןיליאם --- 福克纳威廉, --- Trueblood, Ernest V., --- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, --- Glazgou, Ėllen, --- Glāzgova, E. --- Glāzgova, Elena, --- O'Connor, Mary Flannery --- O'Konnor, Flanneri --- О'Коннор, Фланнери --- Criticism and interpretation. --- In literature. --- Wolfe, Thomas --- וולף, תומס, --- Wolfe (Family : --- Histoire et critique