Comments on: Lolita and Pearl – Sister nymphets? https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/sexuality11/2011/03/22/lolita-and-pearl-sister-nymphets/ Professor Lee Quinby, Spring 2011 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Lee Quinby https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/sexuality11/2011/03/22/lolita-and-pearl-sister-nymphets/#comment-31 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:34:12 +0000 http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/sexuality11/?p=177#comment-31 Ariana, this is a terrific treatment of the way in which The Scarlet Letter participates in the emerging deployment of sexuality, in particular with Pearl’s character as an instance of the second strategic unity regarding the sexualization of the child. Setting it up the way you have allows us to discern the intensification of this process over the century from Pearl to Delores. I also like your Humbert Humbert method of legal exhibits.

I think this would be a good topic for you to expand on in your final essay, should you want to pursue it further in relation to additional readings from the Peiss volume and Foucault (and perhaps an additional literary work from out course for another point of contrast, though that is not entirely necessary). Keep in mind—that is always clarify—the distinctions that emerge by considering Pearl to be both a character drawn by Hawthorne and an object of scrutiny (and projection) by the other characters in the novel, and Delores/Lolita to be HH’s projection, with both of them as characters portrayed by Nabokov.

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