1st Edition
The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition
A Personal Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Stories, Asking Questions
Chapter 1: Telling in Her Own Time: Shame and the Delay of Disclosure in The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 2: Loose Screws and Loose Ends: The Value of Uncertainty in The Turn of the Screw
Chapter 3: Parody, Perversion, and Pedophilia: Consent and the Pornography of Art in Lolita
Chapter 4: The Colors of Shame: Varieties of Racism in The Bluest Eye
Chapter 5: The Wound and the Blessing: Witnessing for One and for All in Gilead
Afterword: What Fiction Can Do for Life
Index
Biography
Beverly Haviland is a Visiting Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Henry James’s Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene and the editor of The Sense of the Past in The Complete Fiction of Henry James.
