<i>Flags in the Dust</i> is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, completed in 1927. It is the first novel set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County. His publisher heavily edited the manuscript with Faulkner's reluctant consent, removing...
In the following essay, Cohen argues that Faulkner first successfully merged elements of the nineteenth-century novel with those of his later modernism in Flags in the Dust.
