Chasing Lolita

Chasing Lolita
Chasing Lolita

Chasing Lolita

How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again
By Graham Vickers

LITERARY CRITICISM

256 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Cloth, PDF, Mobipocket, EPUB

Cloth, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $27.95)

ISBN 9781556526824

Rights: WOR

Chicago Review Press (Aug 2008)

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Overview

August 2008 is the 50th anniversary of Lolita's U.S. publication

In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by storm—Lolita was published in the United States—and since then, her name has been taken in vain to serve a wide range of dubious ventures, both artistic and commercial. Offering a full consideration of not only “the Lolita effect” but shifting attitudes toward the mix of sex, children, and popular entertainment from Victorian times to the present, this study explores the movies, theatrical shows, literary spin-offs, artifacts, fashion, art, photography, and tabloid excesses that have distorted Lolita’s identity with an eye toward some real-life cases of young girls who became the innocent victims of someone else’s obsession—unhappy sisters to one of the most affecting heroines in fiction. New insight is provided into the brief life of Lolita and into her longer afterlives as well.

Reviews

"In his outrageously readable literary criticism-slash-pop culture survey of her fate, Graham Vickers is determined to defend Lolita's honor through a keen analysis of Nabakov's original novel."  —Toronto Star

"Ambitious . . . a companion book to Nabokov's misunderstood masterpiece."  —Bitch

Author Biography

Graham Vickers is the coauthor of Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero and the author of Key Moments in Architecture and 21st Century Hotel.