Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: History, Ideology, Subjectivity
1. Faulkner's Mississippi: Ideology and Southern History
2. Faulkner's Ideology: Ideology and Subjectivity
Part Two: Faulkner, Paternalism, Liberalism
3. The Sound and the Fury: Faulkner's Birth into History
4. Sanctuary: The Social Psychology of Paternalism
5. As I Lay Dying and Light in August: The Social Realities of Liberalism
Part Three: Faulkner's Authorial Ideology
6. Absalom, Absalom! and Natural Aristrocracy
7. Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern Ideology of Race
Part Four: Faulkner's Social Vision
8. The Snopes Trilogy as Social Vision
9. The Reivers: Imaginary Resolutions and Utopian Yearnings
Notes
Works Cited
Index