The Partisan: A Romance of Revolution

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PREFACE TO THE ARKANSAS EDITION The University of Arkansas Press edition of the Selected Fiction of William Gilmore Simms has as its aim to publish the major novels and short fiction in reliable texts, together with scholarly introductions, annotations, and other matter useful to scholars, critics, and teachers of Simms’s work. The edition includes novels in the Border Romances series and the Revolutionary War series, together with writings that treat warfare with Native Americans and selections from Simms’s short fiction. The scope of these writings is wide, capturing the American frontier in its westward advance across the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Though not full-dress editions, the volumes of the Arkansas Simms follow the conventions of scholarly editing by reprinting the last edition revised by Simms during his lifetime. Orthography, capitalization, and word division follow nineteenth-century practices, with no effort to modernize spelling or punctuation. Volumes in the series through Eutaw (2007) include both an introduction by Professor John C. Guilds, now the general editor emeritus, and a historical note and afterword by the editor of that particular volume. In more recent volumes, the introduction, historical note, and afterword are combined into a single introduction prepared by the volume editor. James L. W. West III General Editor ...