Table of Contents:
  • When history failed : William Gilmore Simms's artistic negotiation of the Civil War's consequences / David Moltke-Hansen
  • Imagining the Swamp Fox : William Gilmore Simms and the national memory of Francis Marion / Steven D. Smith
  • Private vs. public honor in wartime South Carolina : William Gilmore Simms in lecture, letter, and history / Todd Hagstette
  • The demands of citizenship in the Confederate Republic : Simms, Confederate nationalism, and the Civil War / Jeffery J. Rogers
  • Isaac Nimmons and the burning of woodlands : power, paternalism, and the performance of manhood in William Gilmore Simms's Civil War South / Ehren Foley
  • Delusions carnival of death : a different war poetry from the South / Johanna Shields
  • Simms, the Civil War, and the poetry of trauma / Matthew C. Brennan
  • Simms's last poems and the artifice of eternity / James Everett Kibler
  • Reading regionalism across the war : Simms and the literary imagination of postbellum literary magazines / Keri Holt
  • An unfinished reconstruction : Simms's The brothers of the coast / Nicholas G. Meriwether
  • How William Gilmore Simms had his cake and ate it too : the indirect polemic in Sharp snaffles / Kevin Collins
  • The angel and the animal / Sara Georgini
  • A sense of things to come : redefining gender and promoting the lost cause in the sense of the beautiful / John D. Miller.