Critical children
Subtitle: the use of childhood in ten great novels
By: Richard Locke
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231157827; 9780231527996
Subjects: American  fiction; Children in literature; History and criticism; English fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Charles Dickens's heroic victims: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip; title: Mark Twain's free spirits and slaves: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; title: Henry James's demonic lambs: Miles and Flora in The turn of the screw; title: J. M. Barrie's eternal narcissist: Peter Pan; title: J. D. Salinger's saintly dropout: Holden Caulfield; title: Vladimir Nabokov's abused nymph: Lolita; title: Philip Roth's performing loudmouth: Alexander Portnoy.