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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Locke, Richard, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Children in literature.
American fiction > History and criticism.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Table of 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.