Richard Locke | 'Critical Children'

Richard Locke, Writing Professor, recently published Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels (Columbia University Press, September 2011). The ten novels explored portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable. Locke traces the 130-year evolution of these iconic child characters, moving from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip in Great Expectations to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; from Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw to Peter Pan and his modern American descendant, Holden Caulfield; and finally to Lolita and Alexander Portnoy.