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Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting
James Kincaid
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Description for Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting
Paperback. Explores contemporary America's preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children. Claiming that our culture has yet to come to terms with the bungled legacy of Victorian sexuality, this title examines how children and images of youth are idealised, fetishised, and eroticised in everyday culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFE1; JFFE2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
In Erotic Innocence James R. Kincaid explores contemporary America’s preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children. Claiming that our culture has yet to come to terms with the bungled legacy of Victorian sexuality, Kincaid examines how children and images of youth are idealized, fetishized, and eroticized in everyday culture. Evoking the cyclic elements of Gothic narrative, he thoughtfully and convincingly concludes that the only way to break this cycle is to acknowledge—and confront—not only the sensuality of children but the eroticism loaded onto them.
Drawing on a number of wide-ranging and well-publicized cases as well as scandals ... Read more
In Erotic Innocence James R. Kincaid explores contemporary America’s preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children. Claiming that our culture has yet to come to terms with the bungled legacy of Victorian sexuality, Kincaid examines how children and images of youth are idealized, fetishized, and eroticized in everyday culture. Evoking the cyclic elements of Gothic narrative, he thoughtfully and convincingly concludes that the only way to break this cycle is to acknowledge—and confront—not only the sensuality of children but the eroticism loaded onto them.
Drawing on a number of wide-ranging and well-publicized cases as well as scandals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
570g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822321934
SKU
V9780822321934
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About James Kincaid
James R. Kincaid is Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Annoying the Victorians.
Reviews for Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting
“A stunning and stinging book—more than entertaining, it is medicinal. This is Kincaid at his powerful, funny, learned, and sinuous best.”—Nina Auerbach, author of Our Vampires, Ourselves “Brave, wise, original, and exuberantly engaging, Erotic Innocence really does intervene in the contemporary cultural scene, both exposing its hypocritical awfulness and articulating models for a world in which children and adults could ... Read more