Backwoods Tales: Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, Bill Baudy: Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy - Brossura

Simms, William Gilmore

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ISBN 10: 1557289220 ISBN 13: 9781557289223

Casa editrice: Univ of Arkansas Pr, 2009

Riassunto

The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806 1870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. Simms’s account of the region is more comprehensive than that of any other author of his time; he treats the major intellectual and social issues of the South and depicts the bonds and tensions among all of its inhabitants. By the mid-1840s Simms’s novels were so well known that Edgar Allan Poe could call him the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, produced.” The twelfth volume in the ongoing Arkansas Edition of the works of William Gilmore Simms, Backwoods Tales brings together three of the best examples of his comic writing. All were written during the last decade of Simms’s life, when he had become a master of his craft. These three tales belong in the tradition of southern backwoods humor, a genre that flourished before the Civil War and produced classic tales by such authors as George Washington Harris, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles,” and Bill Bauldy” are all frame tales, told by rustic narrators in authentic dialect, with frequent pauses for libation and comment. These three pieces of writing, never before published together, stand among the best examples of American humor of the nineteenth century.

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L'autore

Keen Butterworth, an emeritus member of the English Department at the University of South Carolina, has published on Simms, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, and other southern writers. He has recently written about Louis Armstrong for the Southern Review and is currently pursuing projects in fiction and poetry.

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• Editore: Univ of Arkansas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1557289220
• ISBN 13: 9781557289223
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 381
• Redattore: West James L. W. III