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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812067003321

Autore

Blackford Holly Virginia

Titolo

Mockingbird passing [[electronic resource] ] : closeted traditions and sexual curiosities in Harper Lee's novel / / Holly Blackford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-23932-9

9786613239327

1-57233-800-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Passing (Identity) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Miss Jean Louise, Your Novel's about Passin'; 1. Mockingbird and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: A Test Case for the American Scholar; 2. Mockingbird and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Testimony to the Mythic Power of Uncle Tom Melodrama; 3. Mockingbird and Modernist Method: Child Consciousness, or How Scout Knew; 4. Mockingbird and Modernist Polyphony: How Scout Tells, How Lee Laughs; 5. Mockingbird and Post-World War II Southern Writing: Dill, Capote, and the Dragging Out of Boo Radley

6. Mockingbird and Modern Women's Regional Writing: Awakening, Passing, and Passing OutWorks Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How often does a novel earn its author both the Presidential Medal of  Freedom, awarded to Harper Lee by George W. Bush in 2007, and a spot on  a list of "100 best gay and lesbian novels"? Clearly, To Kill a Mockingbird,  Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of race relations and coming of age  in Depression-era Alabama, means many different things to many different  people. In Mockingbird Passing, Holly Blackford invites the  reader to view Lee's beloved novel in parallel with works by other  iconic American writers-from Emerson, Whitman, Stowe, and Twain to  James, Wharton