William Faulkner, Sanctuary

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)

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Sanctuary

(New York: Cape & Smith, 1931), published 9 February 1931, is the sixth in order of publication of William Faulkner’s nineteen novels, and his fourth about Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the apocryphal town and county he created in his fiction. Written between January and May 1929 soon after he completed the

The Sound and the Fury

Sanctuary

was, however, his fifth novel in order of composition. Arguably his most pessimistic novel, and perhaps his most cynical as well, its sensational subject matter― bootlegging, rape, murder, sex, prostitution, two murder trials, a lynching, and an execution―made it Faulkner’s first best seller, and, in literary circles at least, made him famous, if not infamous.

The novel’s three main characters are Horace Benbow,

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "Sanctuary". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 August 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2304, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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