Mockingbird Grows Up - Re-Reading Harper Lee Since Watchman

"This collection, the first to consider Harper Lee's late novel, focuses on re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird in light of the publication of Go Set a Watchman. The essays range from evaluations of the characters, setting, and themes of To Kill a Mockingbird through the backward lens of Go Set a Watchman to studies of race, sexuality, and how the characters change in Harper Lee's posthumous novel. Three essays focus on teaching both of Lee's novels to students familiar with the canonical To Kill a Mockingbird and to a new generation not yet introduced to Lee"--

About the author

CHELI REUTTER is an associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and an affiliate faculty member of the university's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her journal articles have appeared in Paper's on Language and Literature, CEA Critic, Journal of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Literature, and others. She is co-editor of Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West.

JONATHAN S. CULLICK is professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author of Making History: Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren and Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men: A Reader's Companion.

Summary

Takes on the task of interpreting, contextualising, and deconstructing To Kill a Mockingbird in the wake of Go Set a Watchman. This volume offers a deeper understanding of a canonical American work and prepares a new generation to engage with Harper Lee's appealing prose, complex characters, and influential metaphors.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jonathan S Cullick (Editor), Jonathan S. Cullick (Editor), Michele Reutter (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781621905462
• ISBN: 978-1-62190-546-2
• No. of pages: 279
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century