Placement and perspective: Faulkner and the Great Depression -- History and culture : Faulkner in political context -- Decadence and dispossession : Faulkner and the "literary class war" -- Power by design : Faulkner and the specter of fascism -- Revolution and restraint : Faulkner's ambivalent agrarianism -- Destruction and Reconstruction: Faulkner's Civil War and the politics of recovery
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index