Critical children : the use of childhood in ten great novels
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Critical children : the use of childhood in ten great novels
AUTHOR:
Locke, Richard, 1941-
ISBN:
9780231157827
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Columbia University Press, 2011
PHYSICAL_DESC:
218 p. ; 24 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS:
Introduction -- Charles Dickens's heroic victims: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip -- Mark Twain's free spirits and slaves: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -- Henry James’s demonic lambs: Miles and Flora in The turn of the screw -- J. M. Barrie's eternal narcissist: Peter Pan -- J. D. Salinger's saintly dropout: Holden Caulfield -- Vladimir Nabokov's abused nymph: Lolita -- Philip Roth's performing loudmouth: Alexander Portnoy.
SUBJECT:
| Children in literature |
| American fiction -- History and criticism |
| English fiction -- History and criticism |