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For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and republican ideology. Ideals of liberty, democracy, and individualism could not be separated from a history of forcible coercion, oligarchic power, ...

While recent historical scholarship about the relation of capitalism to slavery explores the depths at which US ascension was indebted to global plantation slave economies, John Matthews probes how exemplary works of literature represented the determination to deny the open secret of a national atrocity.

This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.

This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel 1900-1950. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. The Companion allows students to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts. Contributions treat major directions in fiction,...

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel 1900-1950. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. The Companion allows students to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts. Contributions treat major directions in fiction, ...

William Faulkner in Context explores the environment that conditioned Faulkner's creative work. This volume provides a broad and authoritative framework that will help readers to better understand this widely read yet challenging writer. Each essay offers a critical assessment of Faulkner's work as it relates to such topics as genre, reception, and the significance of place.

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner's subjects and characters, ironically, are more readily associated with the history and sociology of the most backward state in the Union. He experimented endlessly with narrative structure, developing an unorthodox writing ...

Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its ...

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner's subjects and characters, ironically, are more readily associated with the history and sociology of the most backward state in the Union. He experimented endlessly with narrative structure, developing an unorthodox writing ...