Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Gloria J. Burgess, David A. Davis,
Sarah E. Gardner, Richard Godden, Ryan Heryford, Robert Jackson,
Gavin Jones, Mary A. Knighton, Peter Lurie, John T. Matthews, Myka
Tucker-Abramson, Michael Wainwright, Jay Watson, and Michael
Zeitlin The matter of money touches a writer's life at every
point-in the need to make ends meet; in dealings with agents,
editors, publishers, and bookstores; and in the choice of subject
matter and the minutiae of imagined worlds. William Faulkner's
Yoknapatawpha was no exception. The people and communities he wrote
about stayed deeply entangled in personal, national, and even
global networks of industry, commerce, and finance, as did the
author himself. Faulkner's economic biography often followed, but
occasionally bucked, the tumultuous economic trends of the
twentieth century. The Faulkner met within these pages is among
modern literature's most incisive and encyclopedic critics of what
one contemporary theorist calls the madness of economic reason.
Faulkner and Money brings together a distinguished group of
scholars to explore the economic contexts of Faulkner's life and
work, to follow the proverbial money toward new insights into the
Nobel Laureate and new questions about his art. Essays in this
collection address economies of debt and gift giving in Intruder in
the Dust; the legacies of commodity fetishism in Sanctuary and of
twentieth-century capitalism's financial turn in The Town; the
pegging of self-esteem to financial acumen in the career of The
Sound and the Fury's Jason Compson; the representational challenges
posed by poverty and failure in Faulkner's Frenchman's Bend tales;
the economics of regional readership and the Depression-era
literary market; the aesthetic, monetary, and psychological rewards
of writing for Hollywood; and the author's role as benefactor to an
aspiring African American college student in the 1950s.
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