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Comparative Cows: Or Reading The Hamlet for its Residues

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posted on 2023-06-07, 19:19 authored by Richard Godden
The essay links the novel's bovine elements (Mink Snopes' scrub bull, Houston's cow, Eula Varner), to constitute a figurative series through which Faulkner addresses the continuity of archaic relations between land and the citizenry of Frenchman's Bend. The autochthonic elements of the novel are drawn from hiding as a subterranean narrative countering and disrupting the novel's more generally recognized account of modernization, associated with the rise of Flem Snopes. The tension between residual and emergent economic strains is set within the economic context of the 1880s and 1890s, in relation to the enclosure movement, and populist issues of common use rights and open range. Close reading explores how economic conflict may be thought to generate the formal strategies of a text.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

ELH: English Literary History

ISSN

0013-8304

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Issue

2

Volume

70

Page range

597-623

Pages

26.0

Department affiliated with

  • American Studies Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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