The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition

by Beverly Haviland

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the novels shows that child sexual abuse is not a new problem, although it has been called by other names in other eras. The introduction explains what literature and literary criticism bring to persistent questions that arise when children are sexually abused. Psychoanalytic concepts developed by Freud,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032023023
• ISBN13: 9781032023021
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"