Other (Dis)enchanted Motels: Nabokov’s Chronicles of Suburban America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editor’s Introduction: Nabokov on the Heights (and in Boston) 1
4. Angst and Asymptote: The Success Motif in Nabokov’s Fiction 26
5. Unlimited Time: Visual Art and Temporality in Vladimir Nabokov’s “La Veneziana” and “The Visit to the Museum” 44
6. Marriage and Its Discontents: Infidelity and Unhappiness in Vladimir Nabokov’s Life and Art 62
7. Joyce’s L. Bloom to Nabokov’s Cincinnatus C.: The Influence of Joyce’s Ulysses on Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading 81
8. “That Skip-Space Piece”: Positioning the Knight in Nabokov’s Poetics 106
9. Sharing Other Worlds: Companionship and Coauthorship in Glory and The Gift 126
10. Other (Dis)enchanted Motels: Nabokov’s Chronicles of Suburban America 145
11. Questions of Style and Technique: Death and Immortality in the Works of Vladimir Nabokov 164
12. Nabokov, the Poetics of Religious Conversion, and the Post-Shoah Reckoning 180
13. “She stands before me as a living child”: Aestheticism, Sentimentality, and Desire in Lolita 207
14. Vladimir Nabokov and the Fruits of Fiction 232
15. Negotiating Nabokov within America’s Political and Social Context 246
16. Nabokov in Boston: A Photo Essay 274
17. Acknowledgments 292
18. Index 294
19. Contributors 307