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"Foolish talk 'bout freedom": Simms's vision of America in the Yemassee.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)(Critical Essay)
From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20030622
Author:King, Vincent
Comparisons are frequently made among Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1820), James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1825), and William Gilmore Simms's The Yemassee (1835). (1) These three works suggest the movement of the romance from Great Britain to America and, within the United States, from the North to the South. The Yemassee is generally regarded as the least effective of the three, perhaps because the plot lines of Ivanhoe and The Last of the Mohicans move quickly from adventure to adventure and do not overburden their protagonists with courtship or civic ...
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