Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War

Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War frames William Faulkner's airplane narratives against major scenes of the early 20th century: the Great War, the rise of European fascism in the 1920s and 30s, the Second World War, and the aviation arms race extending from the Wright Flyer in 1903 into the Cold War era. Placing biographical accounts of Faulkner's time in the Royal Air Force Canada against analysis of such works as Soldiers' Pay(1926), "All the Dead Pilots" (1931), Pylon (1935), and A Fable (1954), this book situates Faulkner's aviation writing within transatlantic historical contexts that have not been sufficiently appreciated in Faulkner's work.

Michael Zeitlin unpacks a broad selection of Faulkner's novels, stories, film treatments, essays, book reviews, and letters to outline Faulkner's complex and ambivalent relationship to the ideologies of masculine performance and martial heroism in an age dominated by industrialism and military technology.

Author: Michael Zeitlin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 01/13/2022
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781501356759
ISBN10: 1501356755
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century

About the Author
Michael Zeitlin is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the editor of Misrecognition, Race, and the Real in Faulkner's Fiction (2004) and former co-editor of The Faulkner Journal.