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This chapter examines the cultural framing of the American South as a national problem, a view of the region that spanned the entire twentieth century and left its mark on Faulkner's imagination. It takes up Faulkner's interrogation of and response to this national discourse of regional othering in the Compson novels, The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, texts which double as Harvard novels. Quentin's brief tenure at Harvard overlaps with the career of Albert Bushnell Hart, an important period commentator who contributed to the national debate over the “Problem South.” In a thought experiment, the chapter proposes that Quentin and his roommate Shreve might have enrolled together in Hart's celebrated History class, an undergraduate introduction to American political history, during the fall 1909 semester at Harvard. |
