Innocence and rapture : the erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov /

Focusing on works by Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov, Kevin Ohi explores the concept of the erotic child in Aestheticism. He compares the erotic child of these authors to the innocent child propogated by today's ideology, and argues that for these authors, the child served as an emblem for the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ohi, Kevin, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
1800-1999
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Children and erotica.
Art for art's sake (Movement)
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Children in literature.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Enfants et érotisme.
Art pour l'art (Théorie)
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esthétisme (Littérature)
Age groups: children.
Literary theory.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literary essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Society.
American literature
Children and erotica
Children in literature
English literature
Onschuld.
Kinderen.
Erotiek.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : innocence and rapture
  • "Doomed creatures of immature radiance" : Renaissance, death, and rapture in Walter Pater
  • Narcissists anonymous : reading and Dorian Gray's new worlds
  • "Blameless and foredoomed" : innocence and haste in The turn of the screw
  • Sentimentality, desire, and aestheticism in Lolita.

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