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...
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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...
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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...
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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 form...
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Roberson discusses the revisions made to "Marse Chan" before its publication in 1884 by the editors of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine.
Thomas Nelson Page's volume of sho...
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[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...
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Gross, Page's biographer, assesses three late stories in which Page illustrates the poignant aftermath of the Civil War.
"The Burial of the Guns," although a weak story, reveals ...
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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...
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Gross discusses the protagonist of "Marse Chan" as Page's most fully delineated Southern hero.
Nowhere in postbellum Southern literature is [the] formal perpetuation of Southern ...
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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...
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Simms quotes at length an astute critic who recognized and identified the causes of Page's declining popularity and influence.
By the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Nelson Page (1853-192...
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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.
Now o...
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Downs argues that Page showed no artistic growth as a writer and succeeded only in creating stereotypes, but he also states that Page's work is, nonetheless, important to understanding Southern...
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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...
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In the following review, the critic derides the excessive sentimentality of "Polly, " but praises the realism and feeling of "The Burial of the Guns" and "My Cousin ...
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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 in ...
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MacKethan comments on how Page unconsciously reveals the weaknesses of the plantation system through his use of black narrators who embody the tensions of the master-slave relationship.
The literary p...
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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 Virginia ...
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Mims, one of the first scholars of Southern literature, provides a contemporary assessment of Page's popularity and achievements.
Different from the poet and the critic is the romancer who find...
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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 &#x...
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In the excerpt below, the critic admires Page for his traditional values and his protest against vulgarity in Under the Crust.
[Page] has the American temperament and the American point of view; he be...
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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, wh...
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Johnson, one of Page's editors at The Century Magazine, defines Page's contribution to American literature.
One day in 1881 there came to the editorial office of Scribner's Monthl...
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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 Page...
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Hubbell, a pioneer and leader in Southern literature studies, describes Page's relationship with his editor and literary advisors.
More than his fellow Southerners, the Virginian is regarded as...
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Thomas Nelson Page
Thomas Nelson Page
