Creating Faulkner's reputation: the politics of modern literary criticism

1. Faulkner's image : from prewar nihilist to postwar moralist

2. The commerce of culture : publishing Faulkner in the 1940s

3. The origins of a new literary consensus : the new critics and the New York intellectuals

4. The retreat from radicalism and literary naturalism : Malcolm Cowley's discovery of Faulkner

5. Forging a postwar aesthetic : the Rockefeller foundation and the new literary consensus

6. The triumph of the new literary consensus : literary elitism and liberal anti-communism

7. Faulkner's postwar reputation : the cultural politics of a new aesthetics