Southern Writer and the Civil War (eBook)

The Confederate Imagination of William Gilmore Simms

Jeffery J. Rogers (Autor)

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2015
222 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0202-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book lies at the intersection of Civil War history and the history of American literature. Rogers challenges prevailing assumptions about the nature of Southern identity during the American Civil War and describes an important period in the life of William Gilmore Simms, one of nineteenth-century America's most widely read authors.

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Historians of the American Civil War have debated a wide range of questions raised by the war and its outcome. None have been more vigorously argued as those surrounding its outcome. One of the leading explanations for Confederate defeat has been the argument that the Civil War South lacked a national identity. Related to and supporting this argument is the contention that the Civil War South failed to produce a distinct and vibrant literary culture. These contentions have been challenged by a growing body of literature which argues that the Civil War South did produce a sense of cultural and national identity. This book adds to this counter current through an examination of the Civil War experiences and writings of the Antebellum Souths leading literary figure. Surprisingly, given William Gilmore Simms well-known status prior to the war, his life and work during the course of the war itself has been understudied. This examination reveals the depth and extent to which Simms not only supported the Confederate war effort but how Simms conceptualized and articulated a vision of Confederate nationalism.

Autor

Jeffrey J. Rogers is professor of history at Gordon State College.

Inhalt

Introduction: Simms, Nationalism, and the Civil War South Chapter One: From Southern Sectionalist to Southern Nationalist Chapter Two: Simms and the Formation of the ConfederacyChapter Three: Embracing the Storm: Simms and the Revolution of 1861Chapter Four: The War at Woodlands: Simms on the Southern Homefront Chapter Five: Simms and the Literary ConfederacyChapter Six: “Art Ready for Battle:” The Poetry of War Chapter Seven: To the End Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Simms and Confederate Nationalism

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 19th century literature • American Civil War • American History • American South • Civil War Poetry • Confederacy • Literary Studies • William Gilmore Simms
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0202-4 / 1498502024
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0202-3 / 9781498502023