Innocence and Rapture : The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov.
Title:
Innocence and Rapture : The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov.
Author:
Ohi, K.
ISBN:
9781403978554
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Innocence and Rapture -- 1 "Doomed Creatures of Immature Radiance": Renaissance, Death, and Rapture in Walter Pater -- 2 Narcissists Anonymous: Reading and Dorian Gray's New Worlds -- 3 "Blameless and Foredoomed": Innocence and Haste in The Turn of the Screw -- 4 Sentimentality, Desire, and Aestheticism in Lolita -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This book argues for the centrality of the erotic child in the decadent aesthetics of Pater, Wilde, James and Nabokov. Ohi argues that the queerness of aestheticism has the potential to interrupt contemporary ideologies of childhood innocence and thus the ideology underpinning sexual oppression in general.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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