Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawhpa

by Don Harrison Doyle and Don H. Doyle

Book Overview

Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past.

From the arrival of Europeans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849316
• ISBN13: 9780807849316
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

apocryphal into the actual

This is a well-researched work that's easy to recommend. Doyle is an excellent historian who is well-versed in Faulkner.The combination makes this fine book both an interesting history of Faulkner's native "postage stamp of soil" and an excellent introduction to Faulkner's world. It also provides a wonderful example of what a historian actually does (although not without some cautions along the way).