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Innocence and Rapture

- The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov

By K. Ohi
About Innocence and Rapture

Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. 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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781403969767
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 226
  • Published:
  • September 5, 2005
  • Edition:
  • 2005
  • Dimensions:
  • 140x216x18 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 430 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: June 4, 2025

Description of Innocence and Rapture

Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. 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.

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