Jay Watson

Fossil-Fuel Faulkner

Energy, Modernity, and the Us South

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Produktbeschreibung

The first critical study to apply the tools and insights of the energy humanities to the work of William Faulkner. The volume explores the imaginative, affective, social, and cultural impact of Faulkner's work in relation to southern energy history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780192855619
• ISBN-10: 0192855611
• Artikelnr.: 66156553

Autorenporträt

Jay Watson received his B.A. degree from the University of Georgia and his M.A. and PhD from Harvard University. He has taught at the University of Mississippi since 1989. In 2002 and 2003, he was Visiting Fulbright Professor of American Studies at two universities in Finland, the University of Turku, and Abo Akademi University. His books include Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (1993), Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985 (2012), William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity (2019), and ten edited or co-edited volumes. He was president of the William Faulkner Society from 2009 to 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Fossil-Fuel Fa(u)lkners: Energy and Modernity in the US South
1: Faulkner in Modernity's Basement
2: Yoknapatawpha Road Trip; or, William Faulkner in Car Country
Conclusion: An Energy Fabliau for the Future?
Notes
Works Cited