Publication

2001 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

114,500 words, Guess

Page Count

458 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivefaulknerscountyh0000doyl
  • ISBN-100807826154
  • ISBN-100807849316
  • ISBN-139780807826157
  • ISBN-139780807849316
and 7 more
  • LibraryThing437104
  • Goodreads824006', '824005
  • Library of Congress Control Number00047951
  • OCLC Control Number45087302
  • Better World Books9780807826157
  • Better World Books9780807849316
  • Open LibraryOL6788844M

Classifications

  • DDC976.2/83
  • LCCF347.L2 D69 2001
  • LCC00-047951 [F]

Description

"Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Falkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past.". "Drawing on both history and literature, Doyle renders a researched portrait of Faulkner's home. "Yoknapatawpha was a place of the imagination, invented by Faulkner as a vehicle for developing a coherent body of fiction," Doyle writes, "but the raw materials from which he created this place and its people lay right at his front porch.""--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

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