On Harper Lee : essays and reflections / edited by Alice Hall Petry ; with a foreword by William T. Going.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Racism, fetishism, and the gift economy in To kill a mockingbird / John Carlos Rowe -- Valorizing the commonplace : Harper Lee's response to Jane Austen / Jean Frantz Blackall -- Full circle : a personal reflection / Nichelle D. Tramble -- Humor and humanity in To kill a mockingbird / Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin -- Structuring the narrator's rebellion in To kill a mockingbird / Laura Fine -- Growing up southern : resisting the code for southerners in To kill a mockingbird / Kathryn Lee Seidel -- The madness in the American haunted house : To kill a mockingbird, the new southern gothic, and the young adult novel of the 1960s : a personal reflection / Gerald Early -- Mockingbirds in the land of hadedahs : the South African response to Harper Lee / Lesley Marx -- The religious vision of To kill a mockingbird / Robert Butler -- The mockingbird's throat : a personal reflection / Doris Betts -- Harper Lee, the one-hit wonder / Alice Hall Petry.

"Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most enduring works of southern fiction ever written. Although a literary phenomenon - tens of millions of copies have sold worldwide - there is surprisingly little secondary literature on Lee and her only novel. On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections is the first collection of original essays on the author and her magnum opus. Written for scholars as well as general readers, On Harper Lee is an accessible collection on one of America's most important novels and its often enigmatic creator. Alice Hall Petry is professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She is the author of A Genius in His Way: The Art of Cable's Old Creole Days and Understanding Anne Tyler, and the editor of Critical Essays on Kate Chopin."