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Faulkner’s Era

• FAULKNER’S TIME IN HISTORY
• LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE
• NOTES

Though a small town, Oxford, Mississippi, was home to all the changing currents of American and Southern life that produced what appear in retrospect to be distinct eras. Faulkner was affected by the attitudes of the members of his parents’ generation, with their memories of Reconstruction and the subsequent Redemption movement, by which Southerners resumed control over local and state governments. He grew up in the Strenuous Age (so called because of President Theodore Roosevelt’s advocacy of the strenuous life), apprenticed as a writer in the Jazz Age, and wrote his mature work during the Great Depression. His reputation suffered a decline in the World War II years and recovered during the Eisenhower years and the Cold War. He died in the early 1960s. Faulkner is more generally associated with the...

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1. Introduction
2. About William Faulkner
3. Faulkner At Work
4. Faulkner’s Era
5. Faulkner’s Works
6. Faulkner On Faulkner
7. Study Questions
8. The Falkners Of Mississippi: A Supplementary Chronology
9. Bibliography
10. Copyright

1. William Faulkner