Print version: Benson, Josef, 1974- J. D. Salinger’s The catcher in the rye : a cultural history. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, c2018 175 pages ISBN 9781442277946
Includes bibliographical references and index
The birth of a novel: Holden and Salinger: two men in the closet (a close reading) -- Catcher in the fifties: sweet sixteen and the king -- Catcher in the sixties: false profits -- Catcher in the seventies: uprisings and infiltrations -- Catcher in the eighties: law suits and murder -- Catcher in the nineties and to the present: legacies.