Creating Faulkner's reputation : the politics of modern literary criticism / Lawrence H. Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Lawrence H., 1947-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

United States.

Canon (Literature).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

286 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [1988]

Contents:

1. Faulkner's image : from prewar nihilist to postwar moralist

2. The commerce of culture : publishing Faulkner in the 1940s

3. The origins of a new literary consensus : the new critics and the New York intellectuals

4. The retreat from radicalism and literary naturalism : Malcolm Cowley's discovery of Faulkner

5. Forging a postwar aesthetic : the Rockefeller foundation and the new literary consensus

6. The triumph of the new literary consensus : literary elitism and liberal anti-communism

7. Faulkner's postwar reputation : the cultural politics of a new aesthetics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Schwartz, Lawrence H., 1947- Creating Faulkner's reputation.

ISBN:

0870495658

9780870495656

OCLC:

16805361