The Wigwam and the Cabin: The Arkansas Edition
Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wigwam and the Cabin focuses on the Southern frontier that Simms knew so well, a frontier whose vernacular, courage, humor, folklore, violence, injustice, and beauty are vividly brought to life through the strokes of his pen. I have seen the life, Simms wrote, -- have lived it -- and much of my material...is the planter, the squatter, the Indian, the negro -- the bold and hardy pioneer, the vigorous yeomen -- these are the subjects.Simms's portrayal of frontier life is the more realistic and graphic in all nineteenth-century American literature; and the Arkansas edition of The Wigwam and t…
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Weitere Autoren: Guilds, John Caldwell
- ISBN: 978-1-55728-624-6
- EAN: 9781557286246
- Produktnummer: 9571221
- Verlag: Univ Of Arkansas Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 410 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.5 cm 635 g
- Gewicht: 635
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John Caldwell Guilds is Distinguished Professor of Humanties at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Considered the authority on the work of William Gilmore Simms, he has authored Simms: A Literary Life and William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier.
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