Kidnapping Annabel, Plagiarizing Dolores Haze: Literary and Literal Appropriation in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Gilreath, Philip Austin

Kidnapping Annabel, Plagiarizing Dolores Haze: Literary and Literal Appropriation in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Authors

Gilreath, Philip Austin

Abstract

This paper examines how Humbert Humbert's status as a literary and literal plagiarist contributes to and complicates the traditionally dichotomous critical readings of Nabokov's "Lolita" as either an ethically charged tale of moral rebirth or a work of autonomous art.