Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Charles Dickens's heroic victims: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip -- 2. Mark Twain's free spirits and slaves: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -- 3. Henry James's demonic lambs: Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw -- 4. J. M. Barrie's Eternal Narcissist: Peter Pan -- 5. J. D.Salinger's saintly dropout: Holden Caulfield -- 6. Vladimir Nabokov's abused nymph: Lolita -- 7. Philip Roth's performing loudmouth: Alexander Portnoy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index