Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Sheltered Life, writesCarol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is a jewel ofAmerican literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the SouthernRenaissance. It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society thatblindly holds to past values enforced by a strict code of conduct, being overtakenby the new age of industrialization.
EllenGlasgow's career-long attempt to expose the cruelty of the cult of beauty worshipand the philosophy of evasive idealism that she saw as prevalent in the South'sconversations, manners, customs, and literature reaches its zenith inThe Sheltered Life.