Richard Locke

Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels

J. D. Salinger’s Saintly Dropout

Henry James’s Demonic Lambs

Philip Roth’s Performing Loudmouth

J. M. Barrie’s Eternal Narcissist

Vladimir Nabokov’s Abused Nymph

Charles Dickens’s Heroic Victims

Mark Twain’s Free Spirits and Slaves

4. J. M. Barrie’s Eternal Narcissist: Peter Pan

3. Henry James’s demonic lambs: Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw