Unc' Edinburg: A Plantation Echo

By Thomas Nelson Page

The following book was written by Thomas Nelson Page. Like many of his stories, it is inspired by Plantation tradition—in fact, he popularized it— which is a genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times. Page's postbellum fiction featured a nostalgic view of the South in step with what is termed Lost Cause ideology. Twisting the historical reality of slavery, enslaved people are depicted as faithful, happy and simple, slotted into a paternalistic society. Because of this, the languages and concepts used in this novel are incredibly dated to modern times; but it nevertheless shows an accurate depiction of a time in the U.S. when such views were espoused.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Nov 21, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547411574

Thomas Nelson Page

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 lineage—both the Nelson and Page families were First Families of Virginia—Page 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.

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