Introduction.- 'The Weird Shapes of Sexuality that Lolita Assumes': Art and Morality, Literature and Life; The Making of Lolita in the 1950s.- 'An Idealistic Obsession with the Never-to-be-had': Parody, Perversion and the Meaning of Style; Interpretations of Lolita in the 1960s.- 'The Manifold Recesses of Literary Possibility': Comparative Criticism of America's Lolita in the 1970s.- Nabokov's 'Monster of Incuriosity': Kindness, Cruelty, and the Ethics of Reading Lolita in the 1980s.- 'The Rediscovered Girl': Rereading Lolita in the 1990s.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Acknowledgements.- Index.
'I continue to find the Readers' Guides indispensable for teaching - they really give the students a sense of criticism having a history' - Professor Rachel Bowlby, University of York 'The series looks really excellent - attractively produced, user friendly; and outstanding value for money' - Ronald Knowles, Reader, University of Reading
CHRISTINE CLEGG is a lecturer in Cultural Studies and English Literature at the University of East London.
'I continue to find the Readers' Guides indispensable for teaching - they really give the students a sense of criticism having a history' - Professor Rachel Bowlby, University of York 'The series looks really excellent - attractively produced, user friendly; and outstanding value for money' - Ronald Knowles, Reader, University of Reading
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