Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-205) and index.
Faulkner's Mississippi: ideology and Southern history -- Faulkner's ideology: ideology and subjectivity -- The sound and the fury: Faulkner's birth into history -- Sanctuary: the social psychology of paternalism -- As I lay dying and Light in August: the social realities of liberalism -- Absalom, Absalom! and natural aristocracy -- Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern ideology of race -- The Snopes trilogy as social vision -- The reivers: imaginary resolutions and utopian yearnings