Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness

William Faulkner continues to be an author who is widely read, studied, and admired.This book provides a new and interdisciplinary account of Faulkner's legacy, arguing that his fiction is just as relevant today as it was during his own time.Indeed, Faulkner's far-reaching critique of his Southern heritage speaks directly to the anti-racism discourse of our own time and engages the dire threat to subjecthood in a technologically saturated civilization.Combining literary critique with network and complexity science, this study offers a new reading of William Faulkner as a novelist for the information age.Over the course of his career, we find an artist struggling to articulate the threat to human wellbeing in rapidly scaling social systems and gradually developing a hard-won humanism that affirms the individual and interpersonal life as a source of novelty and social change.