Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics"Remarkably," writes Ted Atkinson, "during a period roughly corresponding to the Great Depression, Faulkner wrote the novels and stories most often read, taught, and examined by scholars." This is the first comprehensive study to consider his most acclaimed works in the context of those hard times. Atkinson sees Faulkner's Depression era novels and stories as an ideological battleground in much the same way that 1930s America was. With their