The Town (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1909-1927
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Power, personal or social, Suicide, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Class consciousness, Adultery, Mississippi, Greed, Ambition, Banks, bankers, or banking
- Locales: Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
Places Discussed
Jefferson. Mississippi town that is home to aristocrats of the unreconstructed Old South, whose family names include the Compsons, de Spains, Sartorises, and Stevenses. The preserved culture and society of the old land-based, medieval class system survived in the American South well into the middle of the twentieth century. The town is the old order of an agrarian, white, Protestant social construct that has outlived its time and its use in the modern world.
Jefferson is also home to the poor white trash who come to populate it, personified by the...
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