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Orations of William Gilmore Simms
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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 Allan 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.
ISBN
9781643364841
Publication Date
6-13-2024
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
City
Columbia
Page Count
324
Disciplines
History
Language
English
Copyright
2024
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
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University of South Carolina Libraries
Recommended Citation
Miller, John D. Honorable and Brilliant Labors: Orations of William Gilmore Simms. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.61162/BZJM2617