Relationships between Go Set a Watchman and To Kill a Mockingbird

What is it about?

I look at the initial reviews of Go Set a Watchman, identifying a group of critics who suspect that novel had actually been written after To Kill a Mockingbird and who see it as a sequel and a second group who present evidence to provide that it had been written earlier. I go on to suggest that a strictly chronological approach (with GSAW coming before TKAM) isn't as helpful as a spatial approach (with the text of GSAW lying underneath the text of TKAM).

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Why is it important?

I validate that relatively few critical studies To Kill a Mockingbird that emerged between the 1980s and 2015 (before the publication of Go Set a Watchman) that challenge the novel's surface argument for empathy and against racism by exploring Atticus' racial and class biases.

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