A Southern Writer and the Civil War: The Confederate Imagination of William Gilmore Simms
- ISBN-10
- 1498502024
- ISBN-13
- 9781498502023
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 222
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-18
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Author
- Jeffery J. Rogers
Description
This book lies at the intersection of Civil War history and the history of American literature. Rogers challenges prevailing assumptions about the nature of Southern identity during the American Civil War and describes an important period in the life of William Gilmore Simms, one of nineteenth-century America's most widely read authors.
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