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The Question What Is A Child? Is At The Heart Of The World The Victorians Made. In Child-loving, James Kincaid Writes A Fresh Chapter In The History Of The Victorian Era. Dealing With One Of The Most Intimate And Troubling Notions Of The Modern Period - How The Victorians (and We, Their Descendants) - Imagine Children Within The Continuum Of Human Sexuality, Kincaid's Work Compels Us To Consider Just How We Love The Children We Love. Throughout The Nineteenth Century, The Child Developed As A Symbol Of Purity, Innocence, Asexuality - The Angelic Child Perhaps Not Wholly Real. Yet The Child Could Also Be A Figure Of Fantasy, Obsession, Suppressed Desires. Think Of Lewis Carroll's Alice (or, A Few Years Later, James Barrie's Peter Pan). The Image Of The Child As Both Pure And Strangely Erotic Is Part Of The Mythology Of Victorian Culture. And So, Kincaid Argues, The Victorians Viewed Children In Ways That Seem To Us Now Complex And Perhaps Bizarre. But Do We Fare Much Better Today? Contemporary Society Sees Children At Risk, In Need Of Protection From Pedophiles. Yet As Our Culture Recoils From The Horror Of Child Molestation, We Offer Children's Bodies As Spectacle In The Media And

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Author

James R Kincaid; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415910033

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.86 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14