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| Name: |
Thomas Nelson Page | | Birth Date: |
April 23, 1853 | | Death Date: |
November 1, 1922 | | Place of Birth: |
Oakland, Virginia, United States | | Place of Death: |
Oakland, Virginia, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, fiction writer, essayist, diplomat |
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 Biography of Thomas Nelson Page
374 words, approx. 1 pages
 The American fiction writer, essayist, and diplomat Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922), a typical Southern aristocrat, did much to cultivate the popular conception of antebellum plantation life. Born at Oakland, Va., on an ancestral plantation, Thomas... summary from source:
 Biography of Thomas Nelson Page
2,863 words, approx. 10 pages
 Thomas Nelson Page's importance to southern literature results from his nostalgic short stories that articulate and popularize the myth of the South's Edenic origins, its prelapsarian heroes and heroines, and its fall. A self-proclaimed Homer, Page... summary from source:
Biography of Thomas Nelson Page
2,553 words, approx. 9 pages
One of the most popular authors of the Reconstruction South, Thomas Nelson Page not only articulated a consistent view of plantation life as he saw it but also served as a spokesman for his generation of Southerners. Page's contemporary, Southern... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Thomas Nelson Page Information
974 words, approx. 3 pages
Thomas Nelson Page (April 23 1853 – November 1 1922) of Virginia was a lawyer and American writer. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, including the important period of World War...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Kimball King
5,754 words, approx. 19 pages
King argues that Page's development of the Southern plantation tradition presents a contradiction between intent and outcome; his panegyrics of the antebellum South inadvertently reveal the fatal weaknesses of the plantation system.
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Critical Essay by Harriet R. Holman
5,207 words, approx. 17 pages
Holman focuses on the non-Southern stories collected in Under the Crust, which found inhospitable magazine editors because they did not conform to Page's earlier local color stories of Southern chivalry.
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Critical Essay by Lucinda H. MacKethan
4,874 words, approx. 16 pages
MacKethan relates how Page created his Arcadian vision of the antebellum South from his conflicted awareness that the Old South was forever destroyed yet still a symbol of strength and pride for the New South.
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