Plantation tradition is a genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times, built on the ideology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, and often called the Plantation Myth.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleThe Swallow Barn (1832) by John Pendleton Kennedy 1 Defining TraitHeavily nostalgic for antebellum times, built on the ideology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Plantation tradition
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Plantation tradition is a genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times.
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The decades before the American Civil War saw several works idealizing the plantation, such as John Pendleton Kennedy's 1832 The Swallow Barn.
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Plantation tradition is a genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times. The ideology is that of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, though this specific genre is often called "The Plantation Myth."
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