The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition

It examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. Legal and therapeutic interventions respond with their disciplinary resources to these questions as they concern victims, perpetrators, and witnesses. Literary criticism offers another analytic framework

Beverly Haviland is aVisiting Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Henry James’s Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene and the editor of The Sense of the Past in The Complete Fiction of Henry James.