Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again

by Graham Vickers

Book Overview

In the summer of 1958, a twelve-year-old girl took the world by storm--Lolita was published in the United States. This child, so fresh and alive, yet so pitiable in her abuse at the hands of the novel's narrator, engendered outrage and sympathy alike, and has continued to do so ever since.

Yet Lolita's image in the broader public consciousness has changed. No longer a little girl, Lolita has come to signify a precocious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556526822
• ISBN13: 9781556526824
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"