ELLEN GLASGOW AND THE TRADITION OF PLANTATION LITERATURE

Abstract

Ellen Glasgow rose to eminence in the period before and after World War 1, associated primarily with the rise of High Modernism in American literature. We can trace in her work the beginnings of the American Literary South movement which became triumphant in the prose fiction of William Faulkner but also of a pleiad of women novelists such as Margaret Mitchell, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee etc. A source of inspiration and rejection was the antebellum plantation literature.