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- William Gilmore Simms: A Biographical Overview
- David Moltke-Hansen
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: William Gilmore Simms as Orator
- part i: nature and its social uses
- Introduction
- “Barnwell Agricultural Society Oration” (1840)
- “The Sense of the Beautiful” (1870)
- part ii: progress and its fragility
- Introduction
- “The Social Principle” (1842)
- “The Sources of American Independence” (1844)
- part iii: class, gender, and the purpose of an education
- Introduction
- “Choice of a Profession” (1855)
- “Inauguration of the Spartanburg Female College” (1855)
- part iv: loud voices, empty rooms
- Introduction
- “South Carolina in the Revolution” (1856)
- “The Social Moral, Lecture 1” (1857)
- “The Antagonisms of the Social Moral, North and South” (1857)
- Appendix: Known Orations of William Gilmore Simms
- Bibliography
- Index