The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The introduction explains what literature and literary criticism bring to persistent questions that arise when children are sexually abused. Each chapter is guided by a difficult question that has arisen from real-life situations of child sexual abuse. Legal and therapeutic interventions respond with their disciplinary resources to these questions as they concern victims, perpetr...