Requiem for a Nun (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1930’s
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Gowan Stevens, Gowan Stevens, Gavin Stevens, Nancy Mannigoe, Governor of Mississippi, Mr. Tubbs
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Melodrama
- Subjects: Prisons, Racism, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Prostitution or prostitutes, Guilt, 1930’s, Capital punishment, Law or legislation, Christianity, Mississippi, Atonement, Courts or courtrooms
- Locales: Yoknapatawpha County (fictive), Jackson, MS
The Story:
Act I. The early settlers of what later became Yoknapatawpha County had founded the town of Jefferson, thereby escaping the “terrible freedom” of the wilderness. The courthouse evolved from a wooden lean-to built on the old log jail to the antebellum, colonial Georgian courthouse designed by Colonel Sutpen’s imported French architect. The town had grown around the courthouse, was burned to the ground by the invading Union troops during the Civil War, and was rebuilt during Reconstruction with the help of carpetbaggers who remained afterwards to prosper...
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