- Paperback: 413 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 2nd edition edition (30 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 041591003X
- ISBN-13: 978-0415910033
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,765,289 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The question `What is a child' lies at the heart of the world the Victorians lived in. Throughout the nineteenth century, there developed an image of the child as a symbol of purity, innocence and asexuality. Yet at the same time, the child could be a figure of fantasy, obsession, and suppressed desires, as in the case of Lewis Carroll's Alice or James Barrie's Peter Pan. This image of the child as both pure and strangely erotic is part of the mythology of Victorian culture. Built on a decade of research into literary, medical, cultural, and legal materials, "Child-Loving" traces for the first time the growth of Victorian - and modern - conceptions of the body, the child, sexuality, and the stories we tell about them. Our own conceptions of childhood are questioned along The Victorians, Kincaid argues, viewed children in ways that seem to us now both complex and bizarre. But do we fare much better today? While our culture recoils from the horror of child molestation, we offer children's bodies as spectacle in the media and advertising, giving children the erotic attention we wish to deny. "Child-Loving" writes a fresh chapter in the history of the Victorian era. Dealing with one of
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some chapters difficult to understand
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Many sentences are long, complex, and abstract.
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