Richard C. Moreland - A Companion to William Faulkner

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EDITED BY RICHARD C. MORELAND

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A companion to William Faulkner / edited by Richard C. Moreland.
p. cm. (Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 47)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2224-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 978-1-119-04540-3 (papercover)
ISBN-10: 1-4051-2224-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1-119-04540-1 (papercover)
1. Faulkner, William, 18971962Criticism and interpretationHandbooks, manuals, etc.
I. Moreland, Richard C. II. Series.
PS3511.A86Z7585 2007
813.52c22
2006012584

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Cover image: William Faulkner in a publicity photo for
Sanctuary, c.1931; Cofield Collection, Southern Media
Archive, University of Mississippi Special Collections

Ted Atkinson serves as assistant professor of English at Augusta State University. His primary areas of research and teaching interest are modern American literature and culture and Southern studies. His publications include Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics (2005), as well as essays in the Faulkner Journal and Mississippi Quarterly.

Timothy P. Caron is professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. His research and teaching interests include religion and literature, particularly in the works of writers such as William Faulkner, Flannery OConnor, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy. He is currently working on a book on the critical reception of William Faulkner.

Deborah Cohn is associate professor of Spanish at Indiana University. She has published essays in Comparative Literature Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, Latin American Research Review, Southern Quarterly, and elsewhere. She co-edited Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies with Jon Smith (2004). She recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to work on a book entitled Creating the Booms Reputation: The Promotion of the Boom in and by the U.S.

Susan V. Donaldson is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor at the College of William and Mary, where she has taught American literature and American studies since 1985. She is the author of Competing Voices: The American Novel, 18651914