Guy Rivers

Guy Rivers
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1834
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Guy Rivers

Guy Rivers
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher: SIMMs
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781557282743

The first of William Gilmore Simms's Border Romance series, this is a vividly accurate and entertaining account of two very different societies in frontier Georgia during the height of the gold-rush era.

Guy Rivers

Guy Rivers
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1835
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN:

Guy Rivers

Guy Rivers
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1882
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN: 9781610751759

William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier

William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier
Author: John Caldwell Guilds
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1997
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780820318875

William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creation of national literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his portrayal of America's westward migration.

Guy Rivers, the Outlaw

Guy Rivers, the Outlaw
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1841
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN:

"Based upon the gold rush that had taken place in northern Georgia in the early 1830s and upon the activities of the notorious Pony Club ... [that] specialized in terrorizing luckless settlers and stealing their horses"--Wimsatt, The major fiction of William Gilmore Simms, p. 123.

Literary Executions

Literary Executions
Author: John Cyril Barton
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421413337

“Rich with historical detail . . . examines the figure and theme of the death penalty in imaginative literature from Cooper to Dreiser.” —Gregg Crane, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. He looks to novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction as well as legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes, A Defence of Capital Punishment, and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which were part of the debate over the death penalty. Barton focuses on several canonical figures—James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser—and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close attention to a host of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers—particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard—whose work helped shape or was shaped by the influential anti-gallows movement. By engaging the politics and poetics of capital punishment, Literary Executions contends that the movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States should be seen as an important part of the context that brought about the flowering of the American Renaissance during the antebellum period and that influenced literature later in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries