“Enforcing the Peter Pan syndrome in women” : the infantilization of female sexuality and how it harms the female subject in Lolita and Wide Sargasso sea

This paper will use Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea as its primary texts to explore how the infantilization of sexuality has a harmful impact on the female protagonists in their respective novels.

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Main Author: Ho, Marjorie Wen Li
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59142
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:This paper will use Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea as its primary texts to explore how the infantilization of sexuality has a harmful impact on the female protagonists in their respective novels.