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"Lolita" themed pulp novels

 Collection
Identifier: 8731

Content Description

34 midcentury sleaze pulps with allusions to Nabokov's Lolita in their titles (including variations LOLA, LITA, and LOTITA), cover summaries ("Jack married Grace for [..] her beautiful teenage daughter!"), or author pseudonym ("Dolores Hays."), or cover design. The majority were published in the 1960s, with several more clustered in the early 1970s; all but two were published after the 1962 release of Kubrick's "Lolita." Some titles follow the pseudo-case-history erotica format, presenting their contents as studies of "sexual psychopath[s]." Several titles advertise "nymphets" or "nymphettes" in their cover while others seem to gesture to the Olympia Press edition, echoing its design and iconic green cover.

Dates

  • 1959 - 1984

Creator

Extent

.6 cubic feet.

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

34 midcentury sleaze pulps.

Status
Completed
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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