Historians of the American Civil War have debated a wide range of
questions raised by the war and its outcome. None have been more
vigorously argued as those surrounding its outcome. One of the
leading explanations for Confederate defeat has been the argument
that the Civil War South lacked a national identity. Related to and
supporting this argument is the contention that the Civil War South
failed to produce a distinct and vibrant literary culture. These
contentions have been challenged by a growing body of literature
which argues that the Civil War South did produce a sense of
cultural and national identity. This book adds to this counter
current through an examination of the Civil War experiences and
writings of the Antebellum South's leading literary figure.
Surprisingly, given William Gilmore Simms' well-known status prior
to the war, his life and work during the course of the war itself
has been understudied. This examination reveals the depth and
extent to which Simms not only supported the Confederate war effort
but how Simms conceptualized and articulated a vision of
Confederate nationalism.
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