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Faulkner and Print Culture
Contributor(s): Watson, Jay (Editor), Harker, Jaime (Editor), Thomas, James G., Jr. (Editor)

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ISBN: 1496825705     ISBN-13: 9781496825704
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - Regional
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
- Literary Collections | American - General
Dewey: 813.52
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.89 lbs) 274 pages
Features: Illustrated
 
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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, Jay Watson, and Yung-Hsing Wu

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 US 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 avant-garde); 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Watson, Jay: - Jay Watson is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and professor of English at the University of Mississippi. His many publications include Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner and Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985.Harker, Jaime: - Jaime Harker is professor of literature and director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi and author of America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars; Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America; and The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women In Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon.Thomas Jr, James G.: - James G. Thomas, Jr., is associate director for publications at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, editor of multiple works on southern literature, and former managing editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
 
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