03480nam 2200733Ia 450 991045058710332120200520144314.01-281-36399-597866113639941-4039-7855-710.1057/9781403978554(CKB)1000000000342708(SSID)ssj0000179423(PQKBManifestationID)11165507(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179423(PQKBWorkID)10126197(PQKB)10827960(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7855-4(MiAaPQ)EBC307889(Au-PeEL)EBL307889(CaPaEBR)ebr10135390(CaONFJC)MIL136399(OCoLC)560535267(EXLCZ)99100000000034270820050427d2005 fy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrInnocence and rapture[electronic resource] the erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov /Kevin Ohi1st ed.New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (240 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-53147-2 1-4039-6976-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.Introduction : innocence and rapture -- "Doomed creatures of immature radiance" : Renaissance, death, and rapture in Walter Pater -- Narcissists anonymous : reading and Dorian Gray's new worlds -- "Blameless and foredoomed" : innocence and haste in The turn of the screw -- Sentimentality, desire, and aestheticism in Lolita.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 the beautiful child offers partisans of 'art for art's sake' an emblem for the ecstatic and erotic, even the queer possibilities of art. Aestheticism's erotic child is thus in stark contrast to the innocent child of today's ideology, who secures the claims of identity against the very disorientations celebrated by aestheticism. Articulating aesthetic transport through the desiring and desired child, aestheticism interrogates the ideology underpinning sexual oppression.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismChildren and eroticaArt for art's sake (Movement)American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismChildren in literatureAestheticism (Literature)Electronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Children and erotica.Art for art's sake (Movement)American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Children in literature.Aestheticism (Literature)820.9353809034Ohi Kevin1972-931027MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450587103321Innocence and rapture2217555UNINA