TY - BOOK AU - Locke,Richard TI - Critical Children: tThe Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels SN - 9780231157827 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - PS 374 .C45 L63 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Children in literature KW - American fiction KW - History and criticism KW - English fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -