Critical children : the use of childhood in ten great novels /

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Locke, Richard, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Children in literature.
American fiction > History and criticism.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American fiction
Children in literature
English fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (218 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231527996
0231527993

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