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
