LEADER 03480nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910450587103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-36399-5 010 $a9786611363994 010 $a1-4039-7855-7 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403978554 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342708 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179423 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165507 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179423 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10126197 035 $a(PQKB)10827960 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7855-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307889 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL307889 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10135390 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136399 035 $a(OCoLC)560535267 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342708 100 $a20050427d2005 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInnocence and rapture$b[electronic resource] $ethe erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov /$fKevin Ohi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York, N.Y. $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-349-53147-2 311 $a1-4039-6976-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aTaking 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChildren and erotica 606 $aArt for art's sake (Movement) 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChildren in literature 606 $aAestheticism (Literature) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChildren and erotica. 615 0$aArt for art's sake (Movement) 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChildren in literature. 615 0$aAestheticism (Literature) 676 $a820.9353809034 700 $aOhi$b Kevin$f1972-$0931027 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450587103321 996 $aInnocence and rapture$92217555 997 $aUNINA