The bookmaker's daughter : a memory unbound /
William Gilmore Simms's (1806-1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other nineteenth-century southern author. Simms's career be...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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| Summary: | William Gilmore Simms's (1806-1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other nineteenth-century southern author. Simms's career began with a short novel, Martin Faber, published in 1833. This Gothic tale is reminiscent of James Hogg's Confessions of a Sinner and was written four years before Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson." Narrated in the first person, it is considered a pioneering examination of criminal psychology. Martin seduces. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxix, 290 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781610752602 1610752600 |