| Top | Primary Works

A prolific writer, Simms published (before the Civil War) eighteen volumes of poetry, thirty volumes of fiction, biographies, essays, and articles. Given below are a few of the titles:

Martin Faber: The Story of a Criminal, 1833; The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina, 1835 (e-text); The Life of Francis Marion (Gutenberg text); The Wigwam and the Cabin, 1845; The Sword and the Distaff, 1852; Woodcraft, 1854; The partisan: a romance of the revolution; 1856.

The writings of William Gilmore Simms. Centennial edition. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1969. PS2840 .A1 v.1

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Bakker, Jan. "The Pastoral Pessimism of William Gilmore Simms." Studies in American Fiction 11.1 (Sprg 1983): 81-90. 

Brichford, Charles H. "That National Story: Conflicting Versions and Conflicting Visions of the Revolution in Kennedy's Horse-Shoe Robinson and Simms's The Partisan." Southern Literary Journal 21.1 (Fall 1988): 64-85.

Butterworth, Keen, and James E. Kibler. William Gilmore Simms: a reference guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. Z8819.2 .B87

Current-Garcia, Eugene. The American Short Story before 1850. Boston: Twayne, 1985.

Dye, Renee. "A Sociology of the Civil War: Simms's Paddy McGann." Southern Literary Journal 28.2 (Sprg 1996): 3-23.

Frye, Steven. "Simm's The Yemassee, American Progressivism and the Dialogue of History." Southern Quarterly 35.3 (Sprg 1997): 83-89. 

| Top | Guilds, John C. ed. Long Years of Neglect: The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1988.

Blythe, Anne M. "William Gilmore Simms's The Cassique of Kiawah and the Principles of His Art." 37-59.

Guilds, John C. "'Long Years of Neglect': Atonement at Last?; Essays in Honor of Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves." 3-19.

Kibler, James E., Jr. "Perceiver and Perceived: External Landscape as Mirror and Metaphor in Simms's Poetry." 106-125.

McCardell, John. "Biography and the Southern Mind: William Gilmore Simms." 202-216.

McDaniel, Linda E. "American Gods and Devils in Simms's Paddy McGann" 60-75.

Meriwether, James B. "The Theme of Freedom in Simms's Woodcraft." 20-36.

Meriwether, Nicholas G. "Simms's The Lily and the Totem: 'History for the purposes of art'." 76-105.

Moltke-Hansen, David. "Ordered Progress: The Historical Philosophy of William Gilmore Simms." 126-147.

Moore, Rayburn S. "Paul Hamilton Hayne and William Gilmore Simms: Friends, Colleagues, and Members of the Guild." 166-182.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. "Simms, Charleston, and the Profession of Letters.' 217-234.

Shillingsburg, Miriam J. "Simms's Failed Lecture Tour of 1856: The Mind of the North." 183-201.

Wimsatt, Mary Ann. "The Evolution of Simms's Backwoods Humor." 148-165.

- - -. Simms: A Literary Life. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1992.

- - -., and Caroline Collins. eds. William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1997.

Arnold, Edwin T. "Facing the Monster: William Gilmore Simms and Henry Clay Lewis." 179-91.

Bakker, Jan. "Simms on the Literary Frontier; Or, So Long Miss Ravenel and Hello Captain Porgy: Woodcraft Is the First 'Realistic' Novel in America." 64-78.

Boyd, Molly. "Southwestern Humor in The Wigwam and the Cabin." 165-78.

Collins, Caroline. "Simm's Concept of Romance and His Realistic Frontier." 79-91.

Donovan, Gerard. "Irish Folklore Influences on Simm's 'Sharp Snaffles' and 'Bald-Head Bill Bauldy'." 192-206.

Grantham, Nancy. "Simm's Frontier: A Collision of Cultures." 105-17.

Guilds, John C. "The 'Untrodden Path': Richard Hurdis and Simm's Foray into Literary Realism." 47-54.

Kibler, James E. "Stewardship and Patria in Simm's Frontier Poetry." 209-20.

McHaney, Thomas L. "Simm's Border Beagles: A Carnival of Frontier Voices." 95-104.

Moltke-Hansen, David. "Between Plantation and Frontier: The South of William Gilmore Simms." 3-26.

Moore, Rayburn S. "William Gilmore Simms's Guy Rivers and the Frontier." 55-63.

Newton, David W. "Voices along the Border: Language and the Southern Frontier in Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia." 118-44.

Schmidt, Sabine. "William Gilmore Simms and Friedrich Gerstacker: American and German Literary Perspectives and Parallels." 258-72.

Shillingsburg, Miriam J. "The Cub of the Panther: A New Frontier.' 221-34.

West, Elliott. "The American Frontier: Romance and Reality." 27-43.

Wimsatt, Mary Ann. "Frontier Humor and the 'Arkansas Traveler' Motif in Southward Ho!" 147-64.

| Top | Johanyak, Debra. "William Gilmore Simms: Deviant Paradigms of Southern Womanhood?" Mississippi Quarterly 46.4 ( Fall 1993): 573-88.

Kibler, James E. "Simm's Prophetic Muse." Mississippi Quarterly 49.1 (Wint 1995-1996): 109-13.

Meats, Stephen E. "Bald-Headed Bill Bauldy: Simms' Unredeemed Captive." Studies in American Humor 3.4 (Wint 1984-1985): 321-329.

Meriwether, James B. "Simms's 'Sharp Snaffles' and 'Bald-Head Bill Bauldy': Two Views of Men - and of Women." South Carolina Review 16.2 (Sprg 1984): 66-71.

Okker, Patricia. "Gender and Secession in Simms's Katharine Walton." Southern Literary Journal 29.2 (Sprg 1997): 7-31.

- - -. "Serial Politics in William Gilmore Simms's Woodcraft." Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Eds. Kenneth M. Price and Susan B. Smith. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995. 150-65.

Patrick, Marietta> "The Dream Sequences in William Gilmore Simm's Castle Dismal." Southern Quarterly 35.1 (Fall 1996): 7-12.

Reed, Glenn. "Sectional Tensions in Simms's The Yemassee.' Southern Studies 26.4 (Wint 1987): 282-294.

Ridgely, J. V. William Gilmore Simms. NY: Twayne, 1962. PS2853 .R5

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. The Edge of the Swamp: A Study of the Literature and Society of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989.

Shillingsburg, Miriam J. "The Maturing of Simms's Short Fiction: The Example of 'Oakatibbe'." Mississippi Quarterly 38.2 (Sprg1985): 99-117.

- - -. "Simms's Last Novel, The Cub of the Panther." Southern Literary Journal 17.2 (Sprg 1985): 108-119. 

Wakelyn, Jon L. The politics of a literary man: William Gilmore Simms. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1973. PS2853 W33

Watson, Charles S. "Portrayals of the Black and the Idea of Progress: Simms and Douglass." Southern Studies 20.4 (Wint 1981): 339-350.

- - -. "Simms and the Beginnings of Local Color.' Mississippi Quarterly 35.1 (Wint 1981-1982): 25-39.

- - -. "William Gilmore Simms." The History of Southern Literature. Eds. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. et al. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1985. 108-117.

- - -. "Simms and the Civil War: The Revolutionary Analogy." Southern Literary Journal 24.2 (Sprg 1992): 76-89.

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