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Harper Lee, To Kill a MockingbirdLegal Scholarship:
Rob Atkinson, Liberating Lawyers: Divergent Parallels in Intruder in the Dust and To Kill a Mockingbird, 49 Duke L.J. 601 (1999)
Cynthia L. fountaine, In the Shadlow of Atticus Finch: Constructing a Heroic lawyer, 13 Widener L.J. 123 (2003)
Claudia Johnson, Without Tradition and Within Reason: Judge Horton and Atticus Finch in Court, 45 Ala. L. Rev. 483 (1994)
Robert W. Mayhue, Jr., Crisis of Conscience: Lessons Learned from Legal Literature Through an Analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird and Intruder in the Dust, 46 S.D. L. Rev. 813 (2001)
Note, Being Atticus Finch: The Professional Role of Empathy in To Kill a Mockingbird, 117 Harv. L. 1682 (2004)
Mike Papantonio, In Search of Atticus Finch: A Motivational Book for Lawyers (1995)
Thomas L. Shaffer, The Moral Theology of Atticus Finch, 41 U. Pitts. L. Rev. 181 (1981)
______________, Growing Up good in Maycomb, 45 Ala. L. Rev. 531 (1994)
Gregory J. Sullivan, Children Into men: Lawyers and the Law in Three Novels, 37 Catholic Law. 29 (1996)
Literary Scholaship:Diann L. Baecker, Telling It In Black and White: The Importance of the Africanist Presence in To Kill a Mockingbird, 36 (3) Southern Quart. 124 (1998)
Harold Bloom (ed.), Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (Broomall, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House, 1996)
Cramer R. Cauthen & Donald G. Alpin, The Gift Refused: The Southern lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird, The Client, and Cape Fear, 19 (2) Stud. in Popular Culture 57 (1996)
Laurie Champion, "When You Finally See Them": The Unconquered Eye in To Kill a Mockingbird, 37 (2) Southern Quart. 127 (1999)
Charles M. Chappell, The Unity of To Kill a Mockingbird, 42 (1) Alabama Rev. 32 (1989)
Patrick Chura, Proplepsis and Anachronism: Emmet Till and the Historicity of To Kill a Mockingbird, 32 (2) Soutern Literary J. 1 (2000).
Joseph Crespino, The Strange Career of Atticus Finch, 6 (2) Southern Cultures 9 (2000)
Fred Erisman, The Romantic Regionalism of Harper Lee, 26 (2) Alabama Rev. 122 (1973)
Laura Fine, Gender Conflicts and Their "Dark" Projectioins in Coming of Age White Female Soutern Novels, 36 (4) Southern Quart. 121 (1998){examines several novels including To Kill a Mockingbird)
William T. Going, Truman Capote: Harper Lee's Fictional Portrait of the Artist as an Alabama Child, 42 (2) Alabama Rev. 136 (1989)
Theodore R. Hovet & Grace-Ann Hovet, "Fine Fancy Gentlemen" and "Yappy Folk": Contending Voices in To Kill a Mockingbird, 40 (1) Southern Quart. 67 (2001)
Claudia Johnson, To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (New York: Twayne, 1994)
____________, The Secret Courts of Men's Hearts: Code and Law in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, 19 (2) Stud. Am. Fiction 129 (1991)
____________, Without Tradition and Within Reason: Judge Horton and Atticus Finch in Court, 45 Ala. L. Rev. 483 (1994)
Carolyn Jones, Atticus Finch and the Mad Dog: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, 34 (4) Southern Quart. 53 (1996)
Christopher Metress, The Rise and Fall of Atticus Finch, 24 (1) Chattahoochee Rev. 95 (2003)
Dean Shackleford, The Female Voice in To Kill a Mockingbird: Narrative Strategies in Film and Novel, 50 (1) Miss. Quart. 101 (1996/1997)
Mitzi-Ann Stiltner, "Don't Put Your Shoes on the Bed: A Moral Analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird, masters thesis, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2002
Eric J. Sundquist, Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (Cambridge: Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005)
____________, "Blues for Atticus Finch: Scottsboro, Brown, and Harper Lee," in Larry J. Griffin & Don H. Doyle (eds.), The South as an American Problem 181-209 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995).
The Revisionist Critique:
Nancy L. Cook, A Call to Affirmative Action for Fiction's Heroes of Color, or How Hawkeye, Huck, and Atticus Foil the Work of Antiracism, 11 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 603 (2002)
Joseph Crespino, The Strange Career of Atticus Finch, 6 (2) Southern Cultures 9 (2000)
Tim Dare, Lawyers, Ethics, and To Kill a Mockingbird, 25 Phil. & Lit. 127 (2001)
Monroe Freedman, Atticus Fich--Right and Wrong, 45 Ala. L. Rev. 473 (1994)
[See also: Monroe Freedman, Argumentum Ad Hominem: Atticus Finch as Hero?, 130 (11) New Jersey L.J. 15 (March 16, 1992); Atticus Finch, Esq., R.I.P., 14 (40 Legal Times 20 (Feb 24, 1992); Atticus Finch, R.I.P., Conn. L. Tribute 17 (February 24, 1992)]
Steven Lubet, Reconstructing Atticus Finch, 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1339 (1990)
Teresa Godwin Phelps,
_________________, Propter Honoris Respectum: Atticus, Thomas, and the Meaning of Justice, 77 Notre Dame L. Rev. 925 (2002)
Pedagogical Texts:
Claudia Johnson, Understanding to Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historica Documents (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994)
Terry O'Neill (ed.), Readings on To Kill a Mockingbird (San Diego, California: Greenhaven, 2000)
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