Introduction; A summary of the plot; What is To Kill a Mockingbird about? How strong is the influence of real events on the novel? How important is the narrator's age? How does the first-person narrative work? Why is Scout a tomboy? How good a lawyer is Atticus Finch? How does the book relate to the stereotypes of southern fiction? Has To Kill a Mockingbird outlived its time? A short chronology; Ten facts.
Stephen Fender holds degrees from Stanford, Wales and the University of Manchester. He has taught at the University of Santa Clara, Williams and Dartmouth Colleges, the University of Edinburgh, University College London and the University of Sussex, where he was Professor and Chair of American Studies from 1985-2001. His books include a study of the rhetoric of the California gold rush: Plotting the Golden West (1982), Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature (1992), and Nature Class and New Deal Literature (2011), about how the American country poor got treated in the novels, documentary photographs and bureaucratic prose of the New Deal liberals. He is now Honorary Professor of English at University College London.
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