Thomas Nelson Page Summary

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 Oa... Read more

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 heroi... Read more

In the following review of In Ole Virginia, the critic praises Page's creation of the Southern hero and use of Negro dialect. Collectively, Mr. Page's tales entitled In Ole Virginia f... Read more

[Wilson, one of the nation's foremost literary critics, notes Page reading a book. that Page's popularity derives from his ability to soothe the Northern conscience and to stir Sout... Read more

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 fat... Read more

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... Read more

Rubin, a leading scholar of Southern literature, argues that Page's "No Haid Pawn, " like many Southern works, implicitly acknowledged the possibility of black insurrection. No... Read more

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 N... Read more

Ridgely focuses on Page's attempts through literature and lectures to prove the rightness of the Southern Cause. Page's forte, like [Joel Chandler] Harris's, was the tale told ... Read more

In this essay, Wilson reassesses Page's role in American literary history and argues against seeing Page as outdated and a racist defender of the ignoble plantation tradition. In Ole Virgin... Read more

In this review occasioned by the publication of The Plantation Edition, the critic assesses Page's contribution to the literature of the South. Since the appearance in the early eighties of ... Read more

Rosewell Page, Page's younger brother, tells of Page's Civil War experiences and their influence on his writing. Young Page's first experience of war was in the spring of 1861,... Read more

Gloster claims that Page's writings are partially responsible for the South's success in curtailing the rights of black citizens. Among . . . post-bellum writers . . . Thomas Nelson P... Read more