{"product_id":"childloving-the-erotic-child-and-victorian-culture","title":"ChildLoving: 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 nineteenth century, there developed an image of the child as a symbol of purity, innocence, asexualitythe angelic child perhaps not wholly real. Yet at the same time, the child could be a figure of fantasy, obsession, and surpressed desires, as in the case of Lewis Carrolls Alice (or later, James Barries Peter Pan). This image of the child as both pure and strangely erotic is part of the mythology of Victorian culture.Now available in paper, Child Loving traces for the first time the growth of the Victorianand modernconceptions of the body, the child, sexuality, and the stories we tell about them. Dealing with one of the most intimate and troubling notions of the modern periodhow the Victorians (and we, their descendents) imagine children within the continuum of human sexualitythis work compels us to reconsider just how we love the children we love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Kincaid, James \/ paperback","offer_id":47834976944373,"sku":"SONG041591003X","price":58.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/51k9-ZI_gVL_ef2416fe-ad52-4304-a3e0-f089171517c7.jpg?v=1773673023","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/childloving-the-erotic-child-and-victorian-culture","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}