William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words

by Richard Godden

Book Overview

In William Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century. As the New Deal rapidly accelerated the long-term shift from tenant farming to modern agriculture, many African Americans were driven from the land and forced to migrate north. At the same time, white landowners exchanged dependency on black labor for dependency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069113071X
• ISBN13: 9780691130712
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"