Creating Faulkner's Reputation: Politics Modern Literary Criticism

x + 286 pp. Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. "The sudden inflation of William Faulkner's literary reputation after World War II is at once the most dramatic and most obvious aspect of his writing career, This book investigates the development of Faulkner's literary fame in order to understand why, in the special context of the postwar period, this novelist emerged as a celebrated writer." -- from the Introduction.