fathers and daughters in literature

A guide to understanding William Shakespeare's play "King Lear" that provides information on its characters, plot, themes, social and historical context, and critical approaches.

A guide to studying Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird, " featuring a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary and analysis of the text, and a selection of critical views.

Presents ten essays on Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," covering such topics as the female voice in the novel, Lee's tragic vision, and the novel's historicity, Romantic regionalism, and destabilization of heterosexuality, and includes a chronology and a bibliography.