David Larmour is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University. He co-edited Russian Literature and the Classics (1996) and since 1997 has been one of the editors of the journal Intertexts.

• Introduction: collusion and collision PART I The artist and ideology 1 The Nabokov–Wilson debate: art versus social and moral responsibility 2 Two organ-grinders: duality and discontent in Bend Sinister PART II Discourses of gender and sexuality 3 Okrylyonnyy Soglyadatay – The winged eavesdropper: Nabokov and Kuzmin 4 Getting one past the goalkeeper: sports and games in Glory 5 The crewcut as homoerotic discourse in Nabokov’s Pale Fire PART III Lolita 6 Seeing through Humbert: focussing on the feminist sympathy in Lolita 7 Discourse, ideology, and hegemony: the double dramas in and around Lolita PART IV Cultural contacts 8 Nabokov and the sixties 9 Vladimir Nabokov and popular culture

'I would like to stress that the volume makes for fascinating reading.' - MLR 99.2, 2004