Date of Award
Spring 5-2-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Jeffrey Allred
Second Advisor
Kelvin Black
Academic Program Adviser
Amy Robbins
Abstract
This project will explore the various Romantic influences that Nabokov simultaneously draws and draws away from in Lolita. By analyzing the novel in relation to Keats's narrative poems, I will show the ways Nabokov veered from traditional Romantic structures in the trope of courtly love and in images of consumption and consumerism and how he linked the two different notions of consumption in the novel.
Recommended Citation
Kim, Heajin-Hailie, ""La Belle Dame in bobby socks":Keatsian Echoes in Lolita" (2017). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/175