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Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture
Author: James Kincaid
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The question ``What is a child? is at the heart of the world the Victorians made. Throughout the nineteenth century, there developed an image of the child as a symbol of purity, innocence, asexuality--the angelic child perhaps not wholly real. Yet at the same time, the child could be a figure of fantasy, obsession, and surpressed desires, as in the case of Lewis Carrolls Alice (or later, James Barries Peter Pan). This image of the child as both pure and strangely erotic is part of the mythology of Victorian culture. Now available in paper, Child Loving traces for the first time the growth of the Victorian--and modern--conceptions of the body, the child, sexuality, and the stories we tell about them. Dealing with one of the most intimate and troubling notions of the modern period--how the Victorians (and we, their descendents) imagine children within the continuum of human sexuality--this work compels us to reconsider just how we love the children we love.From Library JournalWhy are we obsessed by stories of child molesting by strangers or child care workers, despite the evidence that such events are very rare? The author (English, Univ. of Southern California) offers startling views on this and other issues concerning child sexuality. His material spans a number of disciplines, including 19th-century literature and child care books, modern social history, court transcripts, and sex manuals. While the book suffers from a surfeit of deconstuctionist verbiage, the authors wide-ranging scholarship and provocative ideas more than make up for the shortcomings. Recommended for most academic and research libraries and for larger public libraries that collect academic material for educated lay readers.- Mary Ann Hughes, Washington State Univ. Libs., Pullman 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review...a work that postmodern theorists and cultural theorists will wish to come to terms with.. -- Victorian ReviewMr. Kincaid himself deserves the praise he bestows on the French historian Phillipe Aries he has written the rarest kind of history... -- Walter Kendrick, New York Times Book Review
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The question ``What is a child? is at the heart of the world the Victorians made. Throughout the nineteenth century, there developed an image of the child as a symbol of purity, innocence, asexuality--the angelic child perhaps not wholly real. Yet at the same time, the child could be a figure of fantasy, obsession, and surpressed desires, as in the case of Lewis Carrolls Alice (or later, James Barries Peter Pan). This image of the child as both pure and strangely erotic is part of the mythology of Victorian culture. Now available in paper, Child Loving traces for the first time the growth of the Victorian--and modern--conceptions of the body, the child, sexuality, and the stories we tell about them. Dealing with one of the most intimate and troubling notions of the modern period--how the Victorians (and we, their descendents) imagine children within the continuum of human sexuality--this work compels us to reconsider just how we love the children we love.From Library JournalWhy are we obsessed by stories of child molesting by strangers or child care workers, despite the evidence that such events are very rare? The author (English, Univ. of Southern California) offers startling views on this and other issues concerning child sexuality. His material spans a number of disciplines, including 19th-century literature and child care books, modern social history, court transcripts, and sex manuals. While the book suffers from a surfeit of deconstuctionist verbiage, the authors wide-ranging scholarship and provocative ideas more than make up for the shortcomings. Recommended for most academic and research libraries and for larger public libraries that collect academic material for educated lay readers.- Mary Ann Hughes, Washington State Univ. Libs., Pullman 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review...a work that postmodern theorists and cultural theorists will wish to come to terms with.. -- Victorian ReviewMr. Kincaid himself deserves the praise he bestows on the French historian Phillipe Aries he has written the rarest kind of history... -- Walter Kendrick, New York Times Book Review
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