Bibliographic title
Lolita and Censorship: A Case Study
Periodical or collection
Research Services Review
Periodical issue
v. 21, no. 4
Page(s)
67-74, 90
Publication year
Abstract
Vladimir Nabokov's 1954 novel Lolita is one of the most frequently mentioned works in discussions of censorship, probably because of its undeniable literary merit and the enthusiasm with which its detractors and defenders have condemned and praised it. It has been condemned as pornography for its sexual content and as depravity for its unusual and even shocking subject matter, and has been praised as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.