Thomas Nelson Page

Marse Chan (eBook, ePUB)

The Tale of Old Virginia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting the ideals of the Lost Cause literary movement-which aimed to celebrate the culture of the American South following the American Civil War-Thomas Nelson Page's short story, "Marse Chan: The Tale of Old Virginia" paints an idyllic vision of plantation life prior to the outbreak of war. Opening with a northerner's arrival in Virginia, the narrative is quickly taken up by the former slave Sam, whose tales glorify his former master, Tom Channing, and the once glorious and prosperous Channing Plantation.

Recognized today as one of Page's most prominent works, "Marse Chan" reflects the complex ideology of life in post-Civil War America, and conveys the chivalry and romance that Page held as essential to life in the South-and which he also believed were destroyed by the aftermath of the Civil War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Canada
• Seitenzahl: 25
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781443429344
• Artikelnr.: 39405386

Autorenporträt

Thomas Nelson Page was an American writer and lawyer, as well as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Despite his family's wealthy lineageboth the Nelson and Page families were First Families of VirginiaPage was raised largely in poverty. Based on his own experiences living on a plantation in the Antebellum South, Page's writing helped popularize the plantation-tradition genre, which depicted an idealized version of slavery and presented emancipation as a sign of moral decline in society. Page's best-known works include the short story collections The Burial of the Guns and In Ole Virginia, the latter of which contains the influential story Marse Chan. Thomas Nelson Page died in 1922.