Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era

<P><I>Teaching Nabokov’s </I>Lolita<I> in the #MeToo Era </I>seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate students<I></I>in the twenty-first century. The time has come to ask: in the #MeToo era and beyond how do we approach Nabokov’s inflammatory masterpiece <I>Lolita</I>? How do we read a novel that describes an unpardonable crime? How do we balance analysis of <I>Lolita</I>’s brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? This student-focused volume offers practical and specific answers to these questions and includes suggestions for teaching the novel in conventional and online modalities. Distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered nature of <I>Lolita</I> by sharing innovative assignments creative-writing exercises methodologies of teaching the novel through film and theatre and new critical analyses and interpretations. </P>