William Faulkner, The Mansion

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 1959

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

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The Mansion

(New York: Random House), published 13 November 1959, is the third volume of William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy, which also includes

The Hamlet

(1940) and

The Town

(1957). The eighteenth of his nineteen novels,

The Mansion

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

Composition and Publication

Composition and Publication

After The Town was published in May 1957, Faulkner took a few months off before beginning The Mansion in early January 1958. Composing on the typewriter on the back of The Town’s first-draft typescript (Blotner, 647), he worked on the novel steadily throughout the year―in Oxford, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in New York―and was able to report to his publisher in

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "The Mansion". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 April 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=223, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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