03700nam 22008775 450 991096542020332120240508222201.09786611363994978128136399212813639959781403978554140397855710.1057/9781403978554(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(Perlego)3497908(EXLCZ)99100000000034270820151207d2005 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrInnocence and Rapture The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov /by K. Ohi1st ed. 2005.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2005.1 online resource (240 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781349531479 1349531472 9781403969767 1403969760 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.SociologySocial groupsLiteratureLiteraturePhilosophyLiterature, Modern19th centuryLiterature, Modern20th centurySociology of Family, Youth and AgingLiteratureLiterary TheoryNineteenth-Century LiteratureTwentieth-Century LiteratureSociology.Social groups.Literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernSociology of Family, Youth and Aging.Literature.Literary Theory.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.820.9353809034Ohi Kevin1972-1791340MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965420203321Innocence and Rapture4328599UNINA