A critical overview of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel features the writings of Fred Erisman, William T. Going, Claudia Durst Johnson, and other scholars.
Introduction / Harold Bloom The issue of censorship / Claudia Durst Johnson The romantic regionalism of Harper Lee / Fred Erisman To kill a mockingbird : Harper Lee's tragic vision / R. A. Dave Store and Mockingbird : two Pulitzer novels about Alabama / William T. Going Hollywood and race : To kill a mockingbird / Colin Nicholson Blues for Atticus Finch : Scottsboro, Brown, and Harper Lee / Eric J. Sundquist The female voice in To kill a mockingbird : narrative strategies in film and novel / Dean Shackelford Prolepsis and anachronism : Emmett Till and the historicity of To kill a mockingbird / Patrick Chura The rise and fall of Atticus Finch / Christopher Metress Harper Lee and the destabilization of heterosexuality / Gary Richards
