{"product_id":"writing-war-and-reunion-jeffery-j-rogers-9781643360898","title":"Writing War and Reunion: Selected Civil War and Reconstruction Newspaper Editorials by William Gilmore SIMMs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of newspaper editorials written by one of the South's premier literary figures of the nineteenth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a novelist, poet, and essayist and was considered the South's premier literary figure at the height of his popularity. No less an authority than Edgar Allen Poe remarked of Simms that \"he has surpassed, we think, any of his countrymen\" as a novelist. Simms's literary achievements include more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and biographies of important figures in American history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the least considered parts of Simms's overall body of writings are those he did for newspapers, the most interesting of which are from the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.\u003ci\u003e Writing War and Reunion\u003c\/i\u003e offers a selection of the best of those so that we can track Simms's thoughts about, and reactions to, the conflict, from its beginnings through to its conclusion and into the early years of Reconstruction. These works provide a valuable insight into how a prominent southern intellectual interpreted and participated in these momentous events in U.S. history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the decades following the Civil War, Simms's reputation suffered a steady decline. Because of his associations with the antebellum South, slavery, and Confederate defeat, as well as changes in literary tastes, Simms came to be regarded as a talented but failed Southern author of a bygone era. Today a robust scholarly literature exists that has reexamined Simms, his literary works, and previous scholarly judgments and finds him to have been an important figure in the development of nineteenth-century American literature and worthy of serious study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffery J. Rogers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643360892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643360898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Jeffery J. Rogers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941242601727,"sku":"9781643360898","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_df151f28-e73a-4003-8895-847e718b4561.jpg?v=1681451762","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-war-and-reunion-jeffery-j-rogers-9781643360898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}