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In Cold Fear: 'The Catcher in the Rye', Censorship, Controversies and Postwar American Character.(Book Review)
Publication: The Modern Language Review Publication Date: 01-APR-03 Author: Seed, David
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COPYRIGHT 2003 Modern Humanities Research Association
In Cold Fear: 'The Catcher in the Rye', Censorship, Controversies and Postwar American Character. By PAMELA HUNT STEINLE. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2000. x + 238 pp. $45. ISBN 0-8142-0848-7.
Between 1961 and 1982 The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored title in US high schools and libraries. This startling statistic was the springboard for Pamela Hunt Steinle's new study of Salinger's famous novel. Partly she gives a critical commentary on the novel; partly she reconstructs some of the local controversies which surrounded it. Thus she argues that Holden Caulfield's self-definition is Adamic in drawing on...
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