Contents

Special Offers

Acknowledgments

Contents

Preface

Pictures of Lo

Introduction

Colorful Misunderstandings, Graphic Misinterpretations

Lolita Today

Text and Image

Reimagining Lolita

Chapter 1

Questions and Answers

Chapter 2

Fictions

Chapter 3

Reflections on Covers Commissioned for the Lolita Book Cover Project

1. Objects

2. Humbert’s worldview

3. Mood

4. Language

Chapter 4

Cover Story

Chapter 5

Passion and Possession: The Visual in the Portrayal of Lolita by Nabokov, Kubrick, and Stern

Chapter 6

The Covers

Chapter 7

Uncovering Lolita

Chapter 8

Dyeing Lolita: Nymphet in the Paratext

Chapter 9

How to Think in Images, or Vladimir Nabokov’s Art of the Image

The Art of the Image

The Trouble with Language

Chapter 10

Dolly as Cover Girl

Chapter 11

Selling Concubines: Who is the Face of the Russian Lolita?

Judging a Book by Its Cover: Nabokov’s Ideal Design for Lolita

Lolita’s Adventures in Russia and Beyond: From the 1960s to the Early 1990s

From Hollywood with Lust: “A Horrible Young Whore Instead of My Nymphet”

Marketing the Russian Lolita Within a Venerable Cultural Canon: The Late 1990s

What’s in a Face: “A Typically Russian Girl”?

Lolita as the Russian Brand and Trend: The Twenty-First Century

Conclusion

Bibliography

Chapter 12

Paperback Nabokov

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Chapter 13

Nabokov and His Industry

Contributors