{"product_id":"childloving-the-erotic-child-and-victorian-culture-9780415905954","title":"Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe question \"What is a child?\" is at the heart of the world the Victorians made. Throughout the 19th century  there developed an image of the child as a symbol of purity  innocence and asexuality. Yet at the same time  the child could be a figure of fantasy  obsession  and suppressed desires  as in the case of Lewis Carrolls Alice or James Barries Peter Pan. This image of the child  as both pure and strangely erotic  is part of the mythology of Victorian culture. Built on a decade of research into literary  medical  cultural  and legal materials  \"Child-Loving\" traces the growth of Victorian - and modern - concepts of the body  the child  sexuality  and the stories we tell about them. The Victorians  Kincaid argues  viewed children in ways that seem to us now both complex and bizarre. But do we fare better today? While our culture recoils from the horror of child molestation  we offer childrens bodies as spectacles in the media  giving children an erotic attention we wish to deny. \"Child-Loving\" writes a additional chapter in the history of the Victorian era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652006338613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0415905958","price":155.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780415905954.jpg?v=1781848476","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/childloving-the-erotic-child-and-victorian-culture-9780415905954","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}