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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. William Gilmore Simms: A Biographical Overview
    1. Background
    2. Personal Life
    3. Career
    4. Associations
    5. Thought
    6. Writings
    7. Posthumous Reputation
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: William Gilmore Simms as Orator
    1. Notes
  9. Part I: Nature and Its Social Uses
    1. Introduction
      1. Notes
    2. “Barnwell Agricultural Society Oration” (1840)
      1. Notes
    3. “The Sense of the Beautiful” (1870)
  10. Part II: Progress and Its Fragility
    1. Introduction
      1. Notes
    2. “The Social Principle” (1842)
      1. Notes
    3. “The Sources of American Independence” (1844)
      1. Notes
  11. Part III: Class, Gender, and the Purpose of an Education
    1. Introduction
      1. Notes
    2. “Choice of a Profession” (1855)
    3. “Inauguration of the Spartanburg Female College” (1855)
  12. Part IV: Loud Voices, Empty Rooms
    1. Introduction
      1. Notes
    2. “South Carolina in the Revolution” (1856)
    3. “The Social Moral, Lecture 1” (1857)
    4. “The Antagonisms of the Social Moral, North and South” (1857)
  13. Appendix: Known Orations of William Gilmore Simms
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index

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  • Braden, Waldo W., editor. Oratory in the Old South, 1828–1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970.
  • Brennan, Matthew C. The Poet’s Holy Craft: William Gilmore Simms and Romantic Verse Tradition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.
  • ———. “Simms, Wordsworth, and ‘The Mysterious Teachings of the Natural World.’” Southern Quarterly 41, no. 2 (Winter 2003): 37–47.
  • Brophy, Alfred L. “‘The Law of the Descent of Thought’: Law, History, and Civilization in Antebellum Literary Addresses.” Law and Literature 20, no. 3 (2008): 343–402. https://doi.org/10.1525/lal.2008.20.3.343.
  • Busick, Sean R. A Sober Desire for History: William Gilmore Simms as Historian. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005.
  • Butterworth, Keen, and James E. Kibler Jr. William Gilmore Simms: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1980.
  • Carman, Harry J. “Jesse Buel, Early Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Reformer.” Agricultural History 17, no. 1 (Jan.1943): 1–13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3739546.
  • Carter, Dan T. “Fateful Legacy: White Southerners and the Dilemma of Emancipation.” In South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, edited by Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer, 137–51. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016.
  • Charles Carroll Simms Collection. South Caroliniana Library, Columbia, SC.
  • Dekker, George. The American Historical Romance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Demaree, Albert Lowther. The American Agricultural Press, 1819–1860. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.
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  • Ensley, Eric William. “Farmer Simms and His Agricultural Critique of Nash Roach.” The Simms Review 13, no. 1 (2005): 6–10. The Simms Initiatives.
  • Faust, Drew Gilpin. “The Rhetoric and Ritual of Agriculture in Antebellum South Carolina.” In Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War, 29–53. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992.
  • ———. A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977.
  • “Floral Exhibition.” Charleston News, May 4, 1870.
  • Foley, Ehren. “Ellet’s Women of the Revolution.” In William Gilmore Simms’s Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization, edited by James Everett Kibler Jr. and David Moltke-Hansen with Ehren Foley, 294–99. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
  • ———. “Isaac Nimmons and the Burning of Woodlands: Power, Paternalism, and the Performance of Manhood in William Gilmore Simms’s Civil War South.” In William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil War: Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters, edited by David Moltke-Hansen, 89–111. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
  • Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Franklin, John Hope. “The North, the South, and the American Revolution.” Journal of American History 62, no. 1 (June 1975): 5–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/1901306.
  • ———. A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1979.
  • “From the Carolina Planter.” Edgefield (SC) Advertiser, March 6, 1840, p. 2. https://lccn.loc.gov/sn84026897.
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  • Govan, Thomas P. “Agrarian and Agrarianism: A Study in the Use and Abuse of Words.” Journal of Southern History 30, no. 1 (1964): 35–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/2205372.
  • Georgini, Sara. “The Angel and the Animal.” In William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil War: Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters, edited by David Moltke-Hansen, 212–23. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
  • Guilds, John Caldwell. Simms: A Literary Life. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992.
  • Guinn, Matthew. “Emerson’s Southern Critics, 1838–1862.” Resources for American Literary Study 25, no. 2 (1999): 174–91. https://doi.org/10.1353/rals.1999.0004.
  • Hagenstein, Edwin C., Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue, editors. American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
  • Hagstette, Todd. “Private vs. Public Honor in Wartime South Carolina: William Gilmore Simms in Lecture, Letter, and History.” In William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil Page 287 →War: Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters, edited by David Moltke-Hansen, 48–67. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
  • Harper, Elizabeth P. Socially Conservative, Academically Progressive: Higher Education for Southern Ladies, 1830–1900. PhD diss, University of Virginia, 2005.
  • Hayne, Paul Hamilton. “Ante-Bellum Charleston.” Southern Bivouac 1 (Oct. 1885): 257–68.
  • Higham, John W. “The Changing Loyalties of William Gilmore Simms.” Journal of Southern History 9, no. 2 (May 1943): 210–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/2191799.
  • Hochfield, George. “An Introduction to Transcendentalism.” In American Transcendentalism: An Anthology of Criticism, edited by Brian M. Barbour, 35–51. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1973.
  • “Home Matters.” Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, Nov. 12, 1856.
  • Hoole, William Stanley. “William Gilmore Simms’s Career as Editor.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 19, no. 1 (1935): 47–54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40576370.
  • Horner, Winifred Bryan. Rhetoric in the Classical Tradition. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
  • Kibler, James Everett, Jr. “The First Simms Letters: ‘Letters from the West’ (1826).” Southern Literary Journal 19, no. 2 (Spring 1987): 81–91.
  • ———. “Introduction.” In Poetry and the Practical, by William Gilmore Simms, xi–xlvii. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
  • ———. “Perceiver and Perceived: External Landscape as Mirror and Metaphor in Simms’s Poetry.” In Long Years of Neglect: The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms, edited by John C. Guilds, 106–25. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988.
  • ———. The Poetry of William Gilmore Simms: An Introduction and Bibliography. Columbia: University of South Carolina Southern Studies Program, 1979.
  • ———. “Simms the Gardener: Reconstructing the Gardens at Woodlands.” The Simms Review 1, no. 1 (1993): 17–26, The Simms Initiatives.
  • ———. “Simms’s ‘Barnwell Agricultural Society Oration.’” The Simms Review 10, no. 1 (2002): 2–4. The Simms Initiatives.
  • ———, and David Moltke-Hansen with Ehren Foley. “The Man of Letters as Critic.” In William Gilmore Simms’s Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization, edited by James Everett Kibler Jr. and David Moltke-Hansen with Ehren Foley, 1–12. William Gilmore Simms Initiatives: Texts and Studies Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
  • Kerber, Linda. “The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment—An American Perspective.” American Quarterly 28, no. 2 (1976): 187–205. https://doi:org/10.2307/2712349.
  • Knight, Edgar W. A Documentary History of Education in the South Before 1860, Volume 4: Private and Denominational Efforts. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953.
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  • Martin, Howard Hastings. “Orations on the Anniversary of American Independence, 1777–1876.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 1955.
  • Page 288 →McCardell, John. The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830–1860. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979
  • McHaney, Thomas L. “An Early 19th-Century Literary Agent: James Lawson of New York.” Publications of the Bibliographic Society of America 64 (Spring 1970): 177–92.
  • Meta. “Correspondence.” The Weekly News (Charleston, SC), Sept. 6, 1855.
  • Miller, James David. South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South. The American South Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press / William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist U, 2002.
  • Miller, John D. “A Sense of Things to Come: Redefining Gender and Promoting the Lost Cause in The Sense of the Beautiful.” In William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil War: Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters, edited by David Moltke-Hansen, 224–37. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
  • Moltke-Hansen, David. “The Critical Revolution and the Revolutionary Critic.” In William Gilmore Simms’s Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization, edited by James Everett Kibler Jr. and David Moltke-Hansen with Ehren Foley, 197–214. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
  • ———. “The Expansion of Intellectual Life: A Prospectus.” In Intellectual Life in Antebellum Charleston, edited by Michael O’Brien and David Moltke-Hansen, 3–44. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
  • ———. “Ordered Progress: The Historical Philosophy of William Gilmore Simms.” In Long Years of Neglect: The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms, edited by John C. Guilds, 126–47. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988.
  • ———. “The Revolutionary Romances: The Partisan; Mellichampe; The Scout; Katharine Walton; Woodcraft; The Forayers; Eutaw; and Joscelyn.” In Reading William Gilmore Simms: Essays of Introduction to the Author’s Canon, edited by Todd Hagstette, 295–316. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017.
  • ———. “Southern Literary Horizons in Young America: Imaginative Development of a Regional Geography.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 42, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 1–31.
  • ———. “When History Failed: William Gilmore Simms’s Artistic Negotiation of the Civil War’s Consequences.” In William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil War: Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters, edited by David Moltke-Hansen, 3–31. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
  • “Mr. Simms’ Lecture on Monday Night.” Charleston (SC) Daily Courier, June 3, 1857. https://www.newspapers.com/image/604528582.
  • “Mr. Simms’ Lectures.” Charleston (SC) Daily Courier, May 30, 1854. https://www.newspapers.com/image/604520289.
  • “Mr. Simms’s Lectures.” Charleston (SC) Mercury, May 26, 1857. https://www.newspapers.com/image/605460314.
  • “Mr. Simms’ Oration.” Charleston (SC) Mercury, Aug. 19, 1844.
  • “Mr. Simms’ Oration.” Charleston (SC) Daily Courier, Feb. 24, 1855.
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  • ———. “Literary Grist: Simms’s Trips to Mississippi.” Southern Quarterly 41, no. 2 (Winter 2003): 119–34.
  • ———. “Simms’s Failed Lecture Tour of 1856: The Mind of the North.” Long Years of Neglect: The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms, edited by John C. Guilds, 183–201. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988.
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  • ———. The Sources of American Independence: An Oration, on the Sixty-Ninth Anniversary of American Independence. Aiken: Town Council of Aiken, SC, 1844. The Simms Initiatives.
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