TY  - BOOK
AU  - Locke,Richard
TI  - Critical children : : the use of childhood in ten great novels / 
SN  - 9780231157827
AV  - PS 374  L814c 2011
U1  - 823.009/3523 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Niños en la literatura
KW  - Novela de ciencia ficción estadounidense
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Novela de ciencia ficción inglesa
KW  - Novela de ciencia ficción americana
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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