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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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