Faulkner and Material Culture Book

Introduction   Joseph R. Urgo     ix
A Note on the Conference     xxi
Faulkner and the Passing of the Old Agrarian Culture   Charles S. Aiken     3
The Philosophy of Furniture, or Light in August and the Material Unconscious   Jay Watson     20
Dematerializing Culture: Faulkner's Trash Aesthetic   Patricia Yaeger     48
Flags in the Dust and the Material Culture of Class   Kevin Railey     68
"Touch Me While You Look at Her": Stars, Fashion, and Authorship in Today We Live   D. Matthew Ramsey     82
Order and Rebellion: Faulkner's Small Town and the Place of Memory   Miles Orvell     104
Faulkner, Photography, and a Regional Ethics of Form   Katherine R. Henninger     121
True and False Things: Faulkner and the World of Goods   T. J. Jackson Lears     139
Contributors     149
Index     151