Critical Children : : The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels / / Richard Locke.
The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable. Richard Locke traces the 130-year evolution of these iconic child characters, moving from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip in Great Expectations to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry...
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Locke, Richard, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Critical Children : The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels / Richard Locke. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (232 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Charles Dickens's heroic victims: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip -- 2. Mark Twain's free spirits and slaves: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -- 3. Henry James's demonic lambs: Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw -- 4. J. M. Barrie's Eternal Narcissist: Peter Pan -- 5. J. D.Salinger's saintly dropout: Holden Caulfield -- 6. Vladimir Nabokov's abused nymph: Lolita -- 7. Philip Roth's performing loudmouth: Alexander Portnoy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable. Richard Locke traces the 130-year evolution of these iconic child characters, moving from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip in Great Expectations to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; from Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw to Peter Pan and his modern American descendant, Holden Caulfield; and finally to Lolita and Alexander Portnoy. "It's remarkable," writes Locke, "that so many classic (or, let's say, unforgotten) English and American novels should focus on children and adolescents not as colorful minor characters but as the intense center of attention." Despite many differences of style, setting, and structure, they all enlist a particular child's story in a larger cultural narrative. In Critical Children, Locke describes the ways the children in these novels have been used to explore and evade large social, psychological, and moral problems. Writing as an editor, teacher, critic, and essayist, Locke demonstrates the way these great novels work, how they spring to life from their details, and how they both invite and resist interpretation and provoke rereading. Locke conveys the variety and continued vitality of these books as they shift from Victorian moral allegory to New York comic psychoanalytic monologue, from a child who is an agent of redemption to one who is a narcissistic prisoner of guilt and proud rage. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) American fiction History and criticism. Children in literature. English fiction History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231157834 https://doi.org/10.7312/lock15782 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231527996 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231527996/original |
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Locke, Richard, Locke, Richard, Critical Children : The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Charles Dickens's heroic victims: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip -- 2. Mark Twain's free spirits and slaves: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -- 3. Henry James's demonic lambs: Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw -- 4. J. M. Barrie's Eternal Narcissist: Peter Pan -- 5. J. D.Salinger's saintly dropout: Holden Caulfield -- 6. Vladimir Nabokov's abused nymph: Lolita -- 7. Philip Roth's performing loudmouth: Alexander Portnoy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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