Abstract
Abstract Questions spring to mind when so overt an appeal is made to American themes and sources. In what ways may Lolita be expressive not only of Nabokov’s perennial concerns (namely, art and the aesthetic imagination) but of a new and pressing interest in securing an American identity? What does that vague term American novel mean, after all, and of what use is it when applied to the work of a writer so conspicuously international in outlook? In light of Nabokov’s concerted attempt to reclaim America for his own creative purposes, it may prove fruitful to reexamine Lolita, both as an American novel and as a work of emigre fiction, in an effort to see how its celebrated theme of the wayward artist is imbued with a characteristically American resonance.
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