Locke Critical Children

The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-52799-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Locke, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Locke is professor of writing at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, and other publications. He has been editor in chief of Vanity Fair and deputy editor of the New York Times Book Review.