ABSTRACT
By examining stories from William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished (1938) that first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, this chapter discusses how republication practices in American print culture encouraged the linked story collection as narrative form in the twentieth century. It details and demonstrates the methodology for the entire book combining genetic criticism (tracing the development of the work from drafts and documentation), reception study (examining how actual audiences interpreted the fiction), and periodical studies (analyzing magazine issues as cultural texts in their own right), while also explaining how the concept of collecting serves as an appropriate heuristic for understanding sets of related fictions that together resemble novels.
