The Sot-Weed Factor

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The Sot-Weed Factor is a 1960 novel by the American writer John Barth. The novel marks the beginning of Barth’s literary postmodernism. The Sot-Weed Factor takes its title from the poem The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr (1708) by the English-born poet Ebenezer Cooke (c. 1665 – c. 1732), about whom few biographical details are known.

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