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Reading William Gilmore Simms

Author : Todd Hagstette

Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press

Page : 632 pages

File Size : 25,61 MB

Release : 2017-08-10

Category : History

ISBN : 1611177731

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Engaging approaches to the vast output of South Carolina's premier man of letters William Gilmore Simms was the best known and certainly the most accomplished writer of the mid-nineteenth-century South. His literary ascent began early, with his first book being published when he was nineteen years old and his reputation as a literary genius secured before he turned thirty. Over a career that spanned nearly forty-five years, he established himself as the American South's premier man of letters—an accomplished poet, novelist, short fiction writer, essayist, historian, dramatist, cultural journalist, biographer, and editor. In Reading William Gilmore Simms, Todd Hagstette has created an anthology of critical introductions to Simms's major publications, including those recently brought back into print by the University of South Carolina Press, offering the first ever primer compendium of the author's vast output. Simms was a Renaissance man of American letters, lauded in his time by both popular audiences and literary icons alike. Yet the author's extensive output, which includes nearly eighty published volumes, can be a barrier to his study. To create a gateway to reading and studying Simms, Hagstette has assembled thirty-eight essays by twenty-four scholars to review fifty-five Simms works. Addressing all the author's major works, the essays provide introductory information and scholarly analysis of the most crucial features of Simms's literary achievement. Arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, the book also features a topical index for more targeted inquiry into Simms's canon. Detailing the great variety and astonishing consistency of Simms's thought throughout his long career as well as examining his posthumous reconsideration, Reading William Gilmore Simms bridges the author's genius and readers' growing curiosity. The only work of its kind, this book provides an essential passport to the far-flung worlds of Simms's fecund imagination.



James Henry Hammond and the Old South

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust

Publisher : LSU Press

Page : 542 pages

File Size : 25,17 MB

Release : 1985-07-01

Category : History

ISBN : 080715248X

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From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman’s troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and an ardent defender of slavery and white supremacy, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and ambition provides a composite portrait of the civilization in which he flourished. A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust’s James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time. Of humble origins, Hammond set out to conquer his society, to make himself a leader and a spokesman for the Old South. Through marriage he acquired a large plantation and many slaves, and then through their coerced labor, shrewd management practices, and progressive farming techniques, he soon became one of the wealthiest men in South Carolina. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served as governor of his state. Evidence that he sexually abused four of his teenage nieces forced him to retreat for many years to his plantation, but eventually he returned to public view, winning a seat in the United States Senate that he resigned when South Carolina seceded from the Union. James Henry Hammond’s ambition was unquenchable. It consumed his life, directed almost his every move and ultimately, in its titanic calculation and rigidity, destroyed the man confined within it. Like Faulkner’s Thomas Sutpen, Faust suggests, Hammond had a “design,” a compulsion to direct every moment of his life toward self-aggrandizement and legitimation. Despite his sexual abuse of enslaved females and their children, like other plantation owners, Hammond envisioned himself as benevolent and paternal. He saw himself as the absolute master of his family and slaves, but neither his family, his slaves, nor even his own behavior was completely under his command. Hammond fervently wished to perfect and preserve what he envisioned as the southern way of life. But these goals were also beyond his control. At the time of his death it had become clear to him that his world, the world of the Old South, had ended.



Selections From the Letters and Speeches of the Hon.

Author : James Henry Hammond

Publisher : Forgotten Books

Page : 378 pages

File Size : 44,42 MB

Release : 2017-12-02

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780260978141

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Excerpt from Selections From the Letters and Speeches of the Hon.: James H. Hammond, of South Carolina Dz'ence might be due to any member Of coordinate governmer Throughout his life, his earliest public utterances (see report Ot meeting of the States Rights and Free trade party Of Barnwell, S. 1 7th July, and his latest (see speech on the Relation of the Sta' U. S. Senate, 21st May, bear witness to the strength Of this fa In 1834 he was elected to Congress, but his health failing, he as for, to resign before the Close of the first session he attended, His ph. Eiaus advised him to travel, and after Spending some time in Euro he returned to his home at Silver Bluff and his agricultural pursu He was elected Governor Of South Carolina in 1842. His administ. Tion was marked by its rigid economy. He asked that the appropr. Trons for arms which he left unexpended be withdrawn, as the Sts had more munitions of war than it would ever probably require. Proposed plans for the immediateliqnidation of the State debt, altho, her bonds stood higher in the English market than those Of any ot State save one; he advised steps looking to a practical approxima Of universal free trade; he systematized the first agricultural sur of the State; consolidated the two State arsenals into the military ac emy, and organized it after the model Of \vest Point; urged that evt dollar that could be spared from the wants of the State be expended education, especially in the establishment in each district of an acade of high grade; recommended a reduction and consolidation Of St Offices. He was assailed in voluminous petitions, circulars and lette on account Of the conviction of one John L. Brown for abducting a q gro slave. Brown was tried and condemned under an English colonial] r Governor Hammond had pardoned him before any Of these documt arrived; be however replied to them in a letter to the Presbyten a Glasgow and in two letters to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.



Citizen-Scholar

Author : Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.

Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 14,69 MB

Release : 2016-11-15

Category : History

ISBN : 1611177510

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A collection of essays reflecting on Edgar as friend and colleague and on the subjects of his scholarly work Citizen-Scholar comprises essays written in honor of Walter Edgar, South Carolina's preeminent historian and founding director of the University of South Carolina (USC) Institute for Southern Studies. In the opening overview of Edgar's impressive academic career, editor Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., discusses Edgar's role as the Palmetto State's omnipresent public historian, radio program host, author of the landmark South Carolina: A History, and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia. The former George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies, and Louise Fry Scudder Professor, Edgar has been recognized with inductions into the South Carolina Hall of Fame and the South Carolina Higher Education Hall of Fame and has received the South Carolina Order of the Palmetto and the South Carolina Governor's Award in the Humanities. The first section of Citizen-Scholar features personal essays about Edgar and his legacy from author and historian Winston Groom, USC vice president Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, USC president Harris Pastides, and historian Mark M. Smith. The essays that follow are written by some of the nation's most renowned scholars of southern history and culture including Charles Joyner, Andrew H. Myers, Barbara L. Bellows, John M. Sherrer III, Orville Vernon Burton, Bernard E. Powers Jr., Peter A. Coclanis, John McCardell, James C. Cobb, Amy Thompson McCandless, and Lacy K. Ford, Jr. The second section of the collection includes essays spanning a range of regional, national, and international topics, all associated with Edgar's research. These essays were written as a tribute to Edgar, both as a historian and as a public scholar, a man actively involved in his profession as well as in his community, both locally and statewide.









A Deeper South

Author : Pete Candler

Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 21,32 MB

Release : 2024-05-21

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1643364804

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The author's road trips through the American South lead to a personal confrontation with history In A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road, Pete Candler offers a travel narrative drawn from twenty-five years of road-tripping through the backroads of the American South. Featuring Candler's own photography, the book taps into the public imagination and the process of both remembering and forgetting that define our collective memory of place. Candler, who belongs to one of Georgia's most recognizable families, confronts the uncomfortable truths of his own ancestors' roles in the South's legacy of white supremacy with a masterful mix of authority and a humbling sense that his own journey of unforgetting and recovering has only just begun.



Selections From the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina

Author : James Henry Hammond

Publisher : Palala Press

Page : 382 pages

File Size : 44,27 MB

Release : 2018-02-17

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ISBN : 9781377820309

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