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The nature of childhood has been much in the public mind recently. Moral panics continually arise about both child victims and child perpetrators of crime. And alongside the horror stories of the headlines, another kind of media representation of children churns out images which evoke nostalgia for a lost golden age of childhood. In this special edition, the contradictions in our ideas of childhood are explored. Essays discuss: child abuse and child crime; Nabokov and Lolita; the relationship between child and adult in psychoanalysis; the child as material for adult sexual fantasy in literary representation; representations of children in Victorian culture, including Lewis Carroll and John Ruskin; and boundaries between adults and children.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2201826 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages