Critical children : the use of childhood in ten great novels /
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 Huc...
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Columbia University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Charles Dickens's heroic victims: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip
- Mark Twain's free spirits and slaves: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
- Henry James's demonic lambs: Miles and Flora in The turn of the screw
- J.M. Barrie's eternal narcissist: Peter Pan
- J.D. Salinger's saintly dropout: Holden Caulfield
- Vladimir Nabokov's abused nymph: Lolita
- Philip Roth's performing loudmouth: Alexander Portnoy.