William Faulkner's first ventures into print culture began far from
the world of highbrow New York publishing houses such as Boni &
Liveright or Random House and little magazines such as the
Double-Dealer. With that diverse publishing history in mind, this
collection explores Faulkner's multifaceted engagements, as writer
and reader, with the United States and international print cultures
of his era, along with how these cultures have mediated his
relationship with various twentieth- and twenty-first-century
audiences. These essays address the place of Faulkner and his
writings in the creation, design, publishing, marketing, reception,
and collecting of books, in the culture of twentieth-century
magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals (from pulp
to avantgarde), in the history of modern readers and readerships,
and in the construction and cultural politics of literary
authorship. Several contributors focus on Faulkner's sensational
1931 novel Sanctuary to illustrate the author's multifaceted
relationship to the print ecology of his time, tracing the novel's
path from the wellsprings of Faulkner's artistic vision to the
novel's reception among reviewers, tastemakers, intellectuals, and
other readers of the early 1930s. Other essayists discuss
Faulkner's early notices, the Saturday Review of Literature,
Saturday Evening Post, men's magazines of the 1950s, and Cold War
modernism. With contributions by: Greg Barnhisel, John N. Duvall,
Kristin Fujie, Sarah E. Gardner, Jaime Harker, Kristi Rowan
Humphreys, Robert Jackson, Mary A. Knighton, Jennifer Nolan, Carl
Rollyson, Tim A. Ryan, Jay Satterfield, Erin A. Smith, and
Yung-Hsing Wu.
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