ABOUT THIS BOOK

First drafted as a novel called Oyster Point when the author was only eighteen, The Cassique of Kiawah was finally published thirty-five years later, in 1859, at the height of William Gilmore Simms’s career. It is a history through fiction of early Charleston, South Carolina, and completed Simms’s series of Revolutionary War novels. Through satire and realism he portrays the charm and the corruption of late seventeenth-century Charleston society, and he contrasts the quiet majesty of the wilderness with the violence of man. The book was widely reviewed and highly praised, and it confirmed Simms’s position as the nation’s best-known novelist.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Kevin Collins is an assistant professor of English at the State University of West Georgia. John Caldwell Guilds is Distinguished Professor in Humanities at the University of Arkansas. He has published extensively on Simms and has served as the editor of many of his works.

REVIEWS

“It is cause for rejoicing that another volume . . . is now added to the University of Arkansas Press’s distinguished series. I cannot imagine a more important editorial and publishing project in the field of nineteenth-century literature. With good texts available for the first time in a century or more, it is possible for critics, scholars, students, and general readers to study, understand, and re-evaluate this most neglected and underrated of American writers.”—James B. Meriwether, McClintock Emeritus Professor of Southern Letters, University of South Carolina “The best scenes in Cassique are exceptional, perhaps unique. They are painted in colors so vivid and with such a confident and practiced hand that the result is a work in which the highly exciting and realistic narrative movement is enhanced by what may be Simms’s finest achievement in description and imagery.” —Anne Blythe Merriwether, Immediate Past President of the William Gilmore Simms Society

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Preface to the Arkansas Edition 000
Special Note to The Cassique of Kiawah 000
William Gilmore Simms Chronology 000
Introduction by John Caldwell Guilds 000
Reproduction of the Title Page	000
Text of The Cassique of Kiawah 000
Afterword 000
Appendices
	Explanatory Notes 000
	Textual Notes 000
Select Bibliography 000
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: South Carolina History Colonial period, ca,  1600-1775 Fiction, South Carolina History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction

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