William Faulkner, The Town

Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1957

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Composition, Publishing History, Background

The Town (New York: Random House), published 1 May 1957, is the second volume of William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy, which also includes The Hamlet (1940) and The Mansion (1959). The seventeenth of his nineteen novels, The Town is the twelfth of fourteen that he set primarily in his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

The Town

(New York: Random House), published 1 May 1957, is the second volume of William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy, which also includes

The Hamlet

(1940) and

The Mansion

(1959). The seventeenth of his nineteen novels,

The Town

is the twelfth of fourteen that he set primarily in his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

Faulkner’s Snopes saga, “about the rise of poor whites and rednecks in social, political,

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "The Town". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 September 2022 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7954, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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