New Essays on Light in August

The American Novel

by Michael Millgate (Editor)

In a series of essays written especially for this volume, five distinguished critics offer a range of approaches, discussing the novel in terms of its composition and position in Faulkner's career, its structure and narrative techniques, and its relation to the religious, racial, and sexual assumptions of the society it represents.

160 pages, Paperback

First published June 26, 1987