Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
Contents
Faulkner's Mississippi : ideology and Southern history -- Faulkner's ideology : ideology and subjectivity -- The sound and the fury : Faulkner's birth into history -- Sanctuary : the social psychology of paternalism -- As I lay dying and Light in August : the social realities of liberalism -- Absalom, Absalom! and natural aristocracy -- Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern ideology of race -- The Snopes trilogy as social vision -- The Reivers : imaginary resolutions and utopian yearnings.