Contents	8
	Acknowledgements	10
	Notes and references	11
	Introduction	12
	1 Text and contexts	16
	Salinger: life and works	18
	Post-war America: society and culture	24
	Catcher and censorship	32
	The Catcher in the Rye: detailed discussion	34
	2 Critical history	50
	‘Unbalanced as a rooster on a tightrope’: reviews on publication	52
	‘One of the loneliest characters in fiction’: the first wave of criticism (1950s and 1960s)	55
	‘Poised between two worlds’: criticism of the 1970s and 1980s	65
	‘A classic American hero’?: criticism from the 1990s to the present	74
	3 Critical readings	82
	Sally Robinson, ‘Masculine protest in The Catcher in the Rye’	84
	Renée R. Curry, ‘Holden Caulfield is not a person of colour’	92
	Pia Livia Hekanaho, ‘ “Queering Catcher”: flits, straights, and other morons’	104
	Denis Jonnes, ‘Trauma, mourning and self-(re)fashioning in The Catcher in the Rye’	113
	Clive Baldwin, ‘ “Digressing from the point”: Holden Caulfield’s women’	124
	Further reading	136
	4 Further reading and web resources	134
	Index	140
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