Faulkner and history
By: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2014 ; edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, Jr
Contributors: Watson, Jay, editor; Thomas, James G., Jr., editor
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781496809971
Subjects: Congresses; History in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Knowledge; History
Description: "William Faulkner remains a historian's writer. A distinguished roster of historians have referenced Faulkner in their published work. They are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of narrative reflections on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist, and dramatist of the fraught enterprise of doing history; and as a historical figure himself, especially following his mid-century emergence as a public intellectual after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of Faulkner's relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures from both the regional and national past; his influence on professional historians; his pursuit of alternate modes of temporal awareness; and the histories of print culture that shaped the production, reception, and criticism of Faulkner's work. Contributors draw on the history of development in the Mississippi Valley, the construction of Confederate memory, the history and curriculum of Harvard University, twentieth-century debates over police brutality and temperance reform, the history of modern childhood, and the literary histories of anti-slavery writing and pulp fiction to illuminate Faulkner's work. Others in the collection explore the meaning of Faulkner's fiction for such professional historians as C. Vann Woodward and Albert Bushnell Hart. In these ways and more, Faulkner and History offers fresh insights into one of the most persistent and long-recognized elements of the Mississippian's artistic vision."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jay Watson; title: Note on the Conference; title: Faulkner Networked: Indigenous, Regional, Trans-Pacific / Wai Chee Dimock; title: Salvific Animality, or Another Look at Faulkner's South / Colin Dayan; title: "Moving Sitting Still": The Economics of Time in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Jordan Burke; title: "A Promissory Note with a Trick Clause": Legend, History, and Lynch Law in Requiem for a Nun / Sean McCann; title: Faulkner and the Freedom Writers: Slavery's Narrative in Business Records from Nineteenth-Century Abolitionism to Twenty-First-Century Neoabolitionism / Calvin Schermerhorn; title: Monuments, Memory, and Faulkner's Nathan Bedford Forrest / Andrew B. Leiter; title: "A Well-Traveled Mudhole": Nostalgia, Labor, and Laughter in The Reivers / Rebecca Bennett Clark; title: Interrogation, Torture, and Confession in William Faulkner's Light in August / W. Fitzhugh Brundage; title: "Who Are You?": Modernism, Childhood, and Historical Consciousness in Faulkner's The Wishing Tree / Hannah Godwin; title: The Noble Experiment? Faulkner's Two Prohibitions / Conor Picken; title: Mr. Cowley's Southern Saga / Sarah E. Gardner; title: Reading Faulkner's Readers: Reputation and the Postwar Reading Revolution / Anna Creadick; title: "The Paper Old and Faded and Falling to Pieces": Absalom, Absalom! and the Pulping of History / Brooks E. Hefner; title: Massachusetts and Mississippi: Faulkner, History, and the Problem of the South / Natalie J. Ring; title: "Saturated" with the Past: William Faulkner, C. Vann Woodward, and the "Burden" of Southern History / James C. Cobb.