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Critical children : the use of childhood in ten great novels / Richard Locke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.Description: 218 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780231157827 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231157827 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231527996 (e-book)
  • 0231527993 (e-book)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS374.C45 L63 2011
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.