Backwoods Tales: Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy
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Backwoods Tales: Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy

Backwoods Tales: Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy

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This title includes three gems of 19th century Southern regional humor. 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' 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' 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 on-going 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. Keen Butterworth, an emeritus member of the English department at the University of South Carolina, has published on Simms, Faulkner, 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. James L. West III is General Editor and John Caldwell Guilds is General Editor ""Emeritus of the Arkansas Edition of Simms' works"".
The most widely published scholar and editor of Simms, John Caldwell Guilds has devoted more than four decades to the study of Simms and his works. Author of the prize-winning biography Simms: A Literary Life and editor of Selected Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Arkansas Edition, Guilds holds the Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Arkansas. Guilds lives on Cartwright Mountain in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas. Charles Hudson, retired as the Franklin Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, is the author of, among other works, The Southeastern Indians and Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Hudson is also the editor of The Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians: A Source Book. Hudson resides in Athens, Georgia
  • Imprint: University of Arkansas Press
  • ISBN13: 9781557289223
  • Number of Pages: 600
  • Packaged Weight: 819
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
  • Release Date: 2010-05-31
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: The most widely published scholar and editor of Simms, John Caldwell Guilds has devoted more than four decades to the study of Simms and his works. Author of the prize-winning biography Simms: A Literary Life and editor of Selected Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Arkansas Edition, Guilds holds the Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Arkansas. Guilds lives on Cartwright Mountain in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas. Charles Hudson, retired as the Franklin Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, is the author of, among other works, The Southeastern Indians and Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Hudson is also the editor of The Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians: A Source Book. Hudson resides in Athens, Georgia

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