02239cam a2200361 i 4500 1262072305 TxAuBib 200727s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020033847 9781984898838 1984898833 40030620874 (OCoLC)20346 TxAuBib rda Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century / edited by Jenny Minton Quigley. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] xxxvii, 413 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""A Vintage Books original"" -- title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. ""A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher""-- Provided by publisher. In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when orginally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse-- art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and power, sexual trauma--Lolita lives on, in an afterlife as blinding as a supernova. With original contributions from a stellar cast of prominent twenty-first century writers and edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher in America, Lolita in the Afterllife is a vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on this perennially provocative book. -- From dust jacket. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 Lolita. Lolita (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich) OCoLC)fst01356296. Essays. essays. Literary criticism. Critiques litt♭raires. Essais. Quigley, Jenny Minton, 1971-, editor.