Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

by Richard Godden

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Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labour dependency in the Southern economy from the antebellum period through to the New Deal. This book seeks to link stylistic aspects of Faulkner's writing to a generative social trauma which constitutes its formal core. That trauma, Godden argues, is a labour trauma, centred on the debilitating discovery by the Southern owning class of its own production...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521044278

ISBN13:9780521044271

Release Date:October 2007

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:308 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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