{"title":"Novel, Sequel, Draft: Classification and the Reception of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman","authors":"Kelsey Squire","doi":"10.5325/RECEPTION.11.1.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/RECEPTION.11.1.0021","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (2015) presents a fascinating study in contemporary reception, as reviewers were puzzled with how to categorize the book: was it a “new novel,” a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, or a draft? This article examines how the classification of Watchman dovetails with reviewers’ concerns about the publishing industry overstepping its bounds. Additionally, it traces how reviewers used Watchman’s ambiguous status as a means of both defending and critiquing the character of Atticus Finch. Ultimately, studying reviewer classifications of Watchman through its initial reception provides an avenue for reviewers to reassess the role of To Kill a Mockingbird as a representative of our national literature, as “required reading” for schools, and as a personal source of inspiration for individual readers.","PeriodicalId":40584,"journal":{"name":"Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History","volume":"50 1","pages":"21 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91260962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Henry Thomas Buckle’s The History of Civilization in England in France (1865–1918): A Transnational Reception Case","authors":"Fiona Mcintosh-Varjabédian","doi":"10.5325/RECEPTION.11.1.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/RECEPTION.11.1.0040","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The article examines how Henry Thomas Buckle’s History of Civilization in England was translated and understood in France from 1865 to 1918. Buckle was translated at a time when English historiography had lost its prominence in France. His positivism, and the influence that French thinkers such as Guizot, Michelet, and Comte had on his work, explain why Buckle was acclaimed during that period. He was published in a collection that made him appear as one of the leading international historians of his time. The article points out how French and British politics interfered with the publication of Buckle’s History under the Second Empire and how finally Buckle was eclipsed by Marx. Through Buckle, the article gives a new outline of the reception of English historiography in France during the latter part of the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":40584,"journal":{"name":"Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History","volume":"1 1","pages":"40 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83852255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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