"A brief history of the nymphet's tribulations": The Interpretation of Obscenity in the Early Reception of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI:10.5325/reception.12.1.0005

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abstract:The publication of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was scandalous, but few seem to know why. One explanation is that Lolita's sexual content offended readers, and while this is in part true, a thorough analysis of the early reviews and criticism of Lolita between 1955 and 1960 reveals that there were many other reasons for the scandal, including the book's humor, its message, and its style. Despite some objections to the book, many commentators came to its defense, but in their attempts to defend the book from accusations of obscenity or immorality, they consistently adopted a negative view of the character Lolita. This article examines these early interpretive trends and their ethical implications.

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“仙女的磨难简史”:纳博科夫《洛丽塔》早期接受中的淫秽解读

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的《洛丽塔》的出版引起了轩然大波，但似乎很少有人知道原因。一种解释是，《洛丽塔》的性内容冒犯了读者，虽然这在一定程度上是正确的，但对1955年至1960年间对《洛丽塔》的早期评论和批评进行全面分析后发现，造成这一丑闻的原因还有很多，包括这本书的幽默、信息和风格。尽管有些人反对这本书，但许多评论家还是为它辩护，但在他们试图为这本书辩护时，他们一直对洛丽塔这个角色持否定态度。本文探讨了这些早期的解释趋势及其伦理意义。

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期刊介绍： Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.