ELLEN GLASGOW’S THE BATTLE-GROUND: AN UNCONVENTIONAL PLANTATION ROMANCE
ELLEN GLASGOW’S THE BATTLE-GROUND: AN UNCONVENTIONAL PLANTATION ROMANCE

Summary/Abstract: Ellen Glasgow’s The Battle-Ground: An Unconventional Plantation Romance. Ellen Glasgow’s novel The Battle-Ground has long been dismissed as a more conventional and romantic work of youth. At a closer look, though, this novel functions as a bridge between the more conventional and idealized representation of the American South in the nineteenth century Southern literature and the great Renascence of Southern letters in the twentieth century. The purpose of the paper is to examine the manner in which Glasgow undermines the conventions of the plantation romance carrying her protagonists through times of peace and war, plenty and deprivation, towards a liberation from the limiting conventions of the Old Order and an understanding of individually created connections against culturally imposed hierarchies.

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