Moments of mathematical reckoning pervade twentieth-century southern literature by authors including William Faulkner, Anita Loos, William Attaway, and Dorothy Allison, revealing a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity.
In Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel," Margaret Leonard says, "Never mind about algebra here. That's for poor folks. There's no need for algebra wh
