the use of childhood in ten great novels Locke, Richard 1941- creator text Electronic books. nyu New York Columbia University Press ©2011 2011 monographic eng

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218 p. ; 23 cm. In Critical Children, Richard Locke follows child characters in classic novels for adults and their use in exploring or evading social, psychological, and moral problems. Moving from Dickens's Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip in Great Expectations to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; from Henry James's Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and his modern American descendent, J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye; and finally to Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Philip Roth's Alexander Portnoy, Loc 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 Richard Locke. Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English Niños en la literatura Novela de ciencia ficción estadounidense Historia y crítica Novela de ciencia ficción inglesa Historia y crítica Novela de ciencia ficción americana PS 374 L814c 2011 823.009/3523 9780231157827 0231157827 9780231157834 AU-PeEL 280420 20230411090643.0 spa