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OverviewWilliam Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil War measures the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on one of the Old South’s foremost intellectuals. Simms’s mid-nineteenth century poems, novels, and essays and the personal and societal trauma and destruction Simms experienced are all portrayed here. Before the war Simms was the most articulate advocate of Southern nationalism. During the war he became a prophetic critic of Confederate policy and poet of cultural ethnogenesis. The defeat of the Confederacy in 1865 shattered Simms’s understanding of the working of history and called into question his sense of a moral providence. This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars first explores William Gilmore Simms’s antebellum treatment of the role of warfare in America’s past and the South’s future. The contributors then consider the impact of the secession crisis, the Civil War, and the Confederate defeat on Simms’s and other white and black Southerners’ perceptions of their much-changed world. Next Simms’s life, published writings, and thoughts during the war and its aftermath are examined. Finally Simms’s late poetry and fictions, especially explicit and implicit commentaries on the postwar South, are analysed. His last oration, The Sense of the Beautiful, published shortly before his death in 1870, is the subject of several essays. William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil War reconstructs from both published writings and private letters the conscious and unconscious effects of the Civil War upon the writer and Southern patriot. Drawing on the fields of history, literature, and even archaeology, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates that the anticipation, course, and consequences of the war were central in shaping Simms’s writings from the 1840s to 1870. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Moltke-Hansen , David S ShieldsPublisher: University of South Carolina Press Imprint: University of South Carolina Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781611171303ISBN 10: 161117130 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 28 February 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationFormer head of the South Carolina Historical Society, the Southern Historical Collection, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, David Moltke-Hansen served as the founding director of the digital William Gilmore Simms Initiatives of the University of South Carolina. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |