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Why the death of Harper Lee is bigger news than the deaths of many major writers.
Atticus Finch, we learn in Go Set a Watchman, once attended a Ku Klux Klan meeting, and welcomes pro-segregation speakers at local council meetings. But is he really so different to the man we know from To Kill a Mockingbird?
Some parents have been horrified to discover that, in Harper Lee’s new book, Atticus Finch – long admired as a paragon of virtue – is a racist. Why? Because their kids are named after him. So, what now?
The novel’s two main characters represent the constitutional conundrum that many Americans grappled with in the pre-civil rights era.
Lee’s second novel is an angrier, more disillusioned, and more obviously political work than her classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
As a historical document, Watchman is a fascinating read. It gives us valuable insight into how America prefers to remember its history of racism.
Talk of a possible third book to follow this week’s release of Go Set a Watchman suggests the ‘delicious mystery’ of Harper Lee will continue for years to come. So what basis is there for the rumours?
The hoopla surrounding the novel’s release is misguided; after all, how much power could a novel written 50 years ago wield in today’s charged environment?
Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, is one of the most anticipated follow-ups in history, to be published next week after a 55-year hiatus. So what does the opening chapter prime us to expect?
By now there can be few people who don’t know Harper Lee’s supposedly long-lost manuscript, Go Set a Watchman, will be published in July. It will be the first book published by Lee since To Kill a Mockingbird…
The announcement of the upcoming publication of Go Set a Watchman – a sequel to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird actually written before the famous novel – has, not surprisingly, set off a flurry of…
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, and was voted The Greatest Novel of All Time in a London Daily Telegraph poll of 2008…
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Southern Cross University
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Reader in American History, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies, Australian National University
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Department Chair of English, Meredith College
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Assistant Professor of American Literature, University of Warwick
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Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama
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Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
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