SOUTHERN AND WESTERN MAGAZINE AND REVIEW.

Item #73783

SOUTHERN AND WESTERN MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. 5 issues. Vol. 2, Nos. 2-6 (Aug.-Dec. 1845). Original 3/4 tree calf and marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine, red morocco spine label. The Southern and Western Monthly Magazine and Review was popularly known as "Simms's Magazine" for its editor William Gilmore Simms, who took it on after withdrawing from The Magnolia. Though he championed a national literature, Simms was most interested in promoting Southern literature. "In Simms's view the Southern and western's nationalism and its sectionalism were in no way incompatible. Insisting that a truly national literature could be made up only `of the literature of distinct sections,' he dismissed charges of narrowness leveled at Southern magazines. For him the fault lay rather with those Northern periodicals that denounced sectionalism while promoting their own writers and ignoring those of the South"-- Chielens, ed. American Literary Magazines, pp.370-5. Publication ceased with the December 1845 issue when it merged with the Southern Literary Messenger.

Price: $750.00