SOURCE: "Lolita Misrepresented, Lolita Reclaimed: Disclosing the Doubles," in College Literature, Vol. 22, No. 2, June, 1995, pp. 81-104.
In the following essay, Patnoe offers a close reading of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita that endeavors to demonstrated how its title character is an adolescent victim of molestation rather than a young seductress.
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