Vladimir Nabokov

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For bibliography of other articles written by Centerwall see below.
Personally I find it incendiary and sensationalistic and therefore
dishonest, to label someone a pedophile without voluminous evidence
and to my mind, activity, even if you mean it in the strictest
sense of the word (OED definition follows)and even if you could
prove that that person HAD been molested as a child by an adult.

A. n. An adult who is sexually attracted to children.

1949 Newsheet (Internat. ed.) 10 Oct. 38/3 The sadistic pedophile.
1951 Group Psychotherapy 4 166 (heading) Psychodramatic treatment
of a pedophile. 1976 Publishers Weekly 23 Aug. 75/2 Hilary is
nine... She's at the mercy of the old man she calls the Devil,
actually a pathetic pedophile. 1981 Observer 18 Jan. 2/2
Paedophiles are adults, both men and women, who direct sexual love
towards children. The most common form of paedophilia is that in
which men are attracted towards young girls. 1998 Daily Tel. 13
Mar. 1/4 Some officials dealing with convicted paedophiles want..a
change in mental health legislation so that the personality
disorder behind paedophilia can be a sectionable condition.


MLA International Bibliography
Author: Centerwall, Brandon S.
Title: Hiding in Plain Sight: Nabokov and Pedophilia
Publication Details: Texas Studies in Literature and Language,
(32:3), 1990 Fall, 468-484.
Publication Date: 1990


MLA International Bibliography
Author: Centerwall, Brandon S.
Title: 'Tell Me Who Can When a Player Dies': Ben Jonson's Epigram
on Richard Burbage, and How It Was Lost to the Canon
Publication Details: Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the
Age of Elizabeth, James and Charles, (4), 1997, 27-34.
Publication Date: 1997


MLA International Bibliography
Author: Centerwall, Brandon S.
Title: Identifying 'Glareanus Vadianus' as John Sanford
Publication Details: Cahiers Elisabéthains: Late Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, (55), 1999 Apr, 35-37.
Publication Date: 1999


MLA International Bibliography
Author: Centerwall, Brandon S.
Title: A Reconsideration of Ben Jonson's Contribution to Sir Walter
Ralegh's The History of the World
Publication Details: Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the
Age of Elizabeth, James and Charles, (7), 2000, 539-54.
Publication Date: 2000



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Vanderbilt University
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