Innocence and rapture [electronic resource] : the erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov / Kevin Ohi.
By: Ohi, Kevin.
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BookPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Edition: 1st ed.Description: x, 226 p.Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Children and erotica | Art for art's sake (Movement) | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Children in literature | Aestheticism (Literature)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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