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Projects of the Simms Initiatives,
University of South Carolina Libraries

In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative editions of out of print works by William Gilmore Simms, antebellum South Carolina's preeminent man of letters. Full content from these volumes will also be available online via www.sc.edu/library. As part of the inaugural effort, the six volumes of The Letters of William Gilmore Simms—first published by USC Press between 1952 and 1982—are also being reissued in their first paperback editions. Each volume also includes a new scholarly introduction.

Beauchampe
William Gilmore Simms
Part 2 of the author's epic depiction of the Kentucky Tragedy
March
5 x 8, 402 pages, 2 illus., ISBN 978-1-61117-061-0
pb, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1856


Charlemont
William Gilmore Simms
Part 1 of the author's epic depiction of the so-called Kentucky Tragedy, the sensational 1820's murder trial for a revenge slaying by a cuckolded man
March
5 x 8, 447 pages, 2 illus., ISBN 978-1-61117-060-3
pb, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1856


Confession; or The Blind Heart
William Gilmore Simms
A pioneering Southern gothic novel of a paranoiac mind that examines the diseased development of jealousy and its consequences
July 5 x 8, 398 pages, 2 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-026-9
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1856


Eutaw
William Gilmore Simms
A novel chronicling America's struggle for freedom and independence set against the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the last major engagement of the Revolution in the Carolinas
March
5 x 8, 582 pages, 2 illus., ISBN 978-1-61117-058-0
pb, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1856


The Forayers
William Gilmore Simms
An American prose epic depicting the late days of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina
March
5 x 8, 560 pages, 2 illus., ISBN 978-1-61117-057-3
pb, $29.95t
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1855


Katharine Walton
William Gilmore Simms
An interesting delineation of the details of urban life during the Revolutionary War set primarily in the social world of Charleston
March
5 x 8, 474 pages, 2 illus., ISBN 978-1-61117-063-4
pb, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1854


The Letters of William Gilmore Simms
Volume I, 1830–1844
Collected and Edited by Mary C. Simms Oliphant, Alfred Taylor Odell,
and T. C. Duncan Eaves
Introduction by Donald Davidson
Biographical Sketch by Alexander S. Salley

July 6 x 9, 594 pages, 9 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-027-6
paper, $29.95s


The Letters of William Gilmore Simms
Volume II, 1845–1849
Collected and Edited by Mary C. Simms Oliphant, Alfred Taylor Odell,
and T. C. Duncan Eaves
Introduction by Donald Davidson
Biographical Sketch by Alexander S. Salley

July 6 x 9, 639 pages, 9 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-028-3
paper, $29.95s


The Letters of William Gilmore Simms
Volume III, 1850–1857
Collected and Edited by Mary C. Simms Oliphant, Alfred Taylor Odell,
and T. C. Duncan Eaves
Introduction by Donald Davidson
Biographical Sketch by Alexander S. Salley

July 6 x 9, 589 pages, 9 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-029-0
paper, $29.95s


The Letters of William Gilmore Simms
Volume IV, 1858–1866
Collected and Edited by Mary C. Simms Oliphant, Alfred Taylor Odell,
and T. C. Duncan Eaves

Introduction by Donald Davidson
Biographical Sketch by Alexander S. Salley

July 6 x 9, 668 pages, 9 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-030-6
paper, $29.95s


The Letters of William Gilmore Simms
Volume V, 1867–1870
Collected and Edited by Mary C. Simms Oliphant, Alfred Taylor Odell,
and T. C. Duncan Eaves

Introduction by Donald Davidson
Biographical Sketch by Alexander S. Salley

July 6 x 9, 608 pages, 9 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-031-3
paper, $29.95s


The Letters of William Gilmore Simms
Volume VI, Supplement, 1834–1870
Expanded Edition with Additional Text by Alexander Moore
Edited by Mary C. Simms Oliphant and T. C. Eaves
July 6 x 9, 360 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-032-0
paper, $29.95s


Mellichampe
William Gilmore Simms
One of the author's early Revolutionary War romances, this "Legend of the Santee" dramatizes the guerilla warfare tactics and swampland raids of Francis Marion
March
5 x 8, 431 pages, 2 illus., ISBN 978-1-61117-062-7
pb, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1854


Poems, Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary, and Contemplative, 2 Volumes in 1
William Gilmore Simms
The author's most important volume of poetry, a collected edition of his past masterpieces
March
5.25 x 8, 708 pages, ISBN 978-1-61117-055-9
pb, $34.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1853


Richard Hurdis
William Gilmore Simms
A Border Romance set on the rugged Alabama frontier, foreshadowing the realism and naturalism of later American literature
March
5 x 8, 403 pages, 2 illus., ISBN 978-1-61117-059-7
pb, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1855


The Scout; or, The Black Riders of Congaree
William Gilmore Simms
One of the author's most popular Revolutionary romances, dramatizing the Whig and Tory conflict in 1780s South Carolina.
July 5 x 8, 472 pages, 2 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-022-1
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1854


Southward Ho!
A Spell of Sunshine
William Gilmore Simms
Observations on the people, politics, and geography of various Southern and Eastern states, as told by storytellers on a voyage from New York to Charleston
July 5 x 8, 472 pages, 2 illus.,
ISBN 978-1-61117-021-4
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1854


Vasconselos
A Romance of the New World
Frank Cooper [William Gilmore Simms]
A novel of war and intense passion told against the historical backdrop of Hernando DeSoto's expedition for the conquest of Florida
July 5 x 8, 531 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-020-7
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1853


Views and Reviews, First and Second Series in 1 Volume
William Gilmore Simms
A significant collection of literary and historical essays demonstrating Simms's importance as a literary theorist and critic
March
5.25 x 8, 422 pages, ISBN 978-1-61117-056-6
pb, $29.95t
Reproduced from the Wiley and Putnam edition, 1845


The Wigwam and the Cabin
William Gilmore Simms
The author's most significant collection of short fiction, taking as its subject matter the Southwestern frontier with all of its humor, violence, injustice, and beauty
March
5 x 8, 472 pages, 2 illus., ISBN 978-1-61117-064-1
pb, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1859


Woodcraft
William Gilmore Simms
Peopled with historical and fictional characters, a response to Uncle Tom's Cabin set at the close of the Revolutionary War in Lowcountry South Carolina
July 5 x 8, 518 pages, 2 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-023-8
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1854


The Yemassee
A Romance of Carolina
William Gilmore Simms
A tale of the frontier psychology of colonial South Carolina, set amid wars between early white settlers and Native American tribes
July 5 x 8, 454 pages, 2 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-024-5
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1853

 

 

 
 

 

 


 

 

 
 
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