CLAUDIA DURST JOHNSON is Professor Emerita at the University of Alabama, where she chaired the English Department for 12 years. She is series editor of the Greenwood Press Literature in Context series, for which she has authored several other books. She is also author of To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (1994) and The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art (1981), as well as numerous articles on American literature and theatre.
