{"product_id":"mockingbird-grows-up-re-reading-harper-lee-since-watchman-9781621905462","title":"Mockingbird Grows Up: Re-Reading Harper Lee Since","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird \u003c\/i\u003ehas attracted a great deal of scholarly and popular attention due to its engaging narrative and broad appeal to a sense of justice, little has been done to examine the modern classic through the lens of Lee's controversial novel \u003ci\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/i\u003e, published unexpectedly a year before the author's death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMockingbird Grows Up\u003c\/i\u003e Cheli Reutter and Jonathan S. Cullick assemble a team of scholars to take on the task of interpreting, contextualising, and deconstructing \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird \u003c\/i\u003ein the wake of \u003ci\u003eGo Set a Watchman. \u003c\/i\u003eThe essays contained in this groundbreaking volume cover a range of literary topics, such as race, sexuality, language, and reading contexts. Critically, the volume revisits the question of African-American characterisation in Lee's work and reexamines the development of Atticus Finch, a character long believed to be an exemplar of justice and virtue in Lee's fiction. The editors also take on questions regarding the publication of \u003ci\u003eGo Set a Watchman, \u003c\/i\u003eand Holly Blackford contributes an essay that places \u003ci\u003eWatchman \u003c\/i\u003ewithin the pantheon of American literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary scholars, educators, and those interested in southern literature will appreciate the new light this publication sheds on a classic American novel. \u003ci\u003eMockingbird Grows Up \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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.","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041757593943,"sku":"9781621905462","price":48.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781621905462.jpg?v=1750951562","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mockingbird-grows-up-re-reading-harper-lee-since-watchman-9781621905462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}