| Description |
1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series |
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Personal Preface -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Stories, Asking Questions -- Critical Means -- Why These Novels? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1. Telling in Her Own Time: Shame and the Delay of Disclosure in The Scarlet Letter -- Another View of Hester -- Shame and Trauma -- Mortification -- A"" is Only the Beginning and Not the Ending -- Take Your Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Loose Screws and Loose Ends: The Value of Uncertainty in The Turn of the Screw |
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The Heyday of Hysteria -- The Redoubt of Certainty -- Who's the Fairest of Them All? -- Doing Unto Others -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Parody, Perversion, and Pedophilia: Consent and the Pornography of Art in Lolita -- The Age of Consent and the Page of Consent -- Perversion -- Parody -- False Confessions -- The Pedophile's License -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. The Colors of Shame: Varieties of Racism in The Bluest Eye -- Shame and Perversion -- Bearable Shame -- Unbearable Shame -- Reading, Writing, and Racism -- The Pervert's Profession -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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5. The Wound and the Blessing: Witnessing for One and for All in Gilead -- Bearing Witness -- The Scene of the Crime -- And the Word Was Made Offense -- Revelations -- Changing the Subject -- One Blessing -- Third Parties -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Afterword: What Fiction Can Do for Life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
It examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. Legal and therapeutic interventions respond with their disciplinary resources to these questions as they concern victims, perpetrators, and witnesses. Literary criticism offers another analytic framework |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000898842 |
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1000898849 |
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