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EDITOR's NOTE. Christine Clegg is co-editor of and contributor to
http://www.l-w-bks.co.uk/journals/cform.html
THE RUINS OF
CHILDHOOD
New Formations - 42
GUEST EDITORS: Christine Clegg, Vicky
Lebeau, Paul Myerscough
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, we explore the
contradictions in our ideas of childhood.
Essays
discuss
child abuse and child crime (including an
essay from the sister of one of Fred
West's
victims)
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 Carrol and John
Ruskin
boundaries between adults and children
Contents and Contributors:
Christine Clegg, Vicky Lebeau, and Paul
Myerscough Editorial
Christine Clegg 'No One is Seduced Here':
Nabokov's Perverse Family Romances
http://www.l-w-bks.co.uk/journals/cform.html
THE RUINS OF
CHILDHOOD
New Formations - 42
GUEST EDITORS: Christine Clegg, Vicky
Lebeau, Paul Myerscough
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, we explore the
contradictions in our ideas of childhood.
Essays
discuss
child abuse and child crime (including an
essay from the sister of one of Fred
West's
victims)
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 Carrol and John
Ruskin
boundaries between adults and children
Contents and Contributors:
Christine Clegg, Vicky Lebeau, and Paul
Myerscough Editorial
Christine Clegg 'No One is Seduced Here':
Nabokov's Perverse Family Romances