Modernity’s Suffocations: Plantation Assemblages in Faulkner’s Miasmic South

William Faulkner’s characters gasp, pant, and suffocate in the enclosed spaces of Yoknapatawpha county. Reading instances of breathlessness and miasmic contamination in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses , this essay argues that Faulkner’s atmospherics simultaneously conceal and reveal...

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Published in:Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.) Md.), 2025-04, Vol.32 (2), p.221-240
Main Author: Hopkinson, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
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Animacy
Modernity
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