Critical children : the use of childhood in 10 great novels
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
