Innocence and Rapture : The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov /

Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof self-loss. He also explores how...

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Main Author:	Ohi, Kevin (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:	Social Sciences. Childhood, Adolescence and Society. Literary Theory. Literature, general. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Twentieth-Century Literature. Adolescence. Children. Literature > Philosophy. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Literature, Modern > 20th century. Literature. Social groups. Social sciences. Electronic books.
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Innocence and rapture : the erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov /

by Ohi, Kevin, 1972-
Published 2005

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