Cassique of Kiawah

A Colonial Romance

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Av William Gilmore Simms

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First drafted as a novel called Oyster Point when the author was only eighteen, The Cassique of Kiawah was finally published thirty-five years later, in 1859, at the height of William Gilmore Simms' career. It is a history through fiction of early Charleston, South Carolina, and completed Simms' series of Revolutionary War novels. Through satire and realism he portrays the charm and the corruption of late seventeenth-century Charleston society, and he contrasts the quiet majesty of the wilderness with the violence of man. The book was widely reviewed and highly praised, and it confirmed Simms' position as the nation's best-known novelist.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-07-30
Mått152 x 228 x 35 mm
Vikt525 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieW.G.SIMMS INITIATIVES
Antal sidor636
FörlagUniversity of South Carolina Press
ISBN9781611176841

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“It is cause for rejoicing that another volume . . . is now added to the University of Arkansas Press’s distinguished series. I cannot imagine a more important editorial and publishing project in the field of nineteenth-century literature. With good texts available for the first time in a century or more, it is possible for critics, scholars, students, and general readers to study, understand, and re-evaluate this most neglected and underrated of American writers.”—James B. Meriwether, McClintock Emeritus Professor of Southern Letters, University of South Carolina“The best scenes in Cassique are exceptional, perhaps unique. They are painted in colors so vivid and with such a confident and practiced hand that the result is a work in which the highly exciting and realistic narrative movement is enhanced by what may be Simms’s finest achievement in description and imagery.” —Anne Blythe Merriwether, Immediate Past President of the William Gilmore Simms Society.