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For many years Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow has been regarded as a classic American regional novelist. But Glasgow is far more than a Southern writer, as Linda Wagner demonstrates in this fascinating reassessment of her work. A Virginia lady, Glasgow began to write at a time when the highest praise for a literary woman was to be mistaken for a male writer. In her early fiction, published at the turn of the century, all attention is focused on male protagonists; the strong female characters who do appear early in these novels gradually fade into the background. But Ellen Glasgow grew to become a woman who, born to be protected from the very life she wanted to chronicle, moved "beyond convention" to live her life on her own terms. And as her own self-image changed, the perspective of her novels became more feminine, the female characters moved to center stage, and their philosophies became central to her themes. Glasgow's best novels, then--Barren Ground, Vein of Iron, and the romantic trilogy that includes The Sheltered Life--came late in her life, when she was no longer content to imitate fashionable male novelists. Glasgow's increased self-assurance as writer and woman led

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Author

Linda W. Wagner, Linda Wagner-Martin

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292720398

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction