Innocence And Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, And Nabokov

This book argues for the centrality of the erotic child in the decadent aesthetics of Pater, Wilde, James and Nabokov. Ohi argues that the queerness of aestheticism has the potential to interrupt contemporary ideologies of childhood innocence and thus the ideology underpinning sexual oppression in general.