Contributions by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Jordan Burke, Rebecca
Bennett Clark, James C. Cobb, Anna Creadick, Colin Dayan, Wai Chee
Dimock, Sarah E. Gardner, Hannah Godwin, Brooks E. Hefner, Andrew
B. Leiter, Sean McCann, Conor Picken, Natalie J. Ring, Calvin
Schermerhorn, and Jay Watson. 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.
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