Cover -- Use and Licence -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977 -- 1.1 Russia, 1899-1919 -- 1.2 England, Germany and France, 1919­-40 -- 1.3 The United States, 1940-59 -- 1.4 France and Switzerland, 1959-77 -- Part 2. Lolita : An Overview -- 2.1 Editions -- 2.2 A chronology -- 2.3 The cast -- 2.4 The major intertexts (Poe, Mérimée, the doppelgänger) -- 2.5 The two movies (1962, 1997) -- Part 3. The Abuses of Language and Girls: Lolita as Pornography -- Part 4. The Precisions of Science: Lolita as Lepidoptery -- Part 5. The Fall of Light and Shadow: Lolita as film noir -- Part 6. Crafted Misdirection: Lolita as Parody -- Bibliography -- Works by Vladimir Nabokov -- Works on Vladimir Nabokov and Lolita -- A Note on the Author -- Humanities Ebooks.