James R. Kincaid
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James R. Kincaid is an American academic, currently the Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
His Erotic Innocence (1998) discusses the sexualisation of children in films.
Works
He is the author and editor of numerous books including:
- "Lost" 2012 - Lost traces the reckless expedition undertaken by two adult couples, imagining they are refreshing themselves and their marriages with a bracing adventure in mountain camping. They cart along their four kids, just to share the fun. Conditions, both outside and inside these adults, force on them sacrifices they were never prepared to make, sacrifices that reach beyond their own lives and into those of their children and, very likely, all of us.[1]
- Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter 1972 -
- Tennyson's Major Poems 1975 - The idea of immortality through fame was, of course, not new, but Kincaid argues Tennyson gave it a special emphasis by focusing not so much on the continuance of the dead man's name as on the power of the people to grant that continuance. [2]
- Novels of Anthony Trollope 1977 -
- Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture 1992 - The 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, asexuality--the 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 Carroll's Alice (or later, James Barrie's Peter Pan). This image of the child as both pure and strangely erotic is part of the mythology of Victorian culture. Child Loving traces for the first time the growth of the Victorian--and modern--conceptions 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 period--how the Victorians (and we, their descendents) imagine children within the continuum of human sexuality--this work compels us to reconsider just how we love the children we love.[3]
- Annoying the Victorians 1994 - In a series of essays covering the "hit parade" of the Victorians--Tennyson, Dickens, Meredith, Hardy and the erotic poetry of The Pearl--Kincaid creates a sharp, insicive parody of the methods of good criticism (and sometimes the practicioners,) all the while raising questions about what "good criticism" is, and how these rules serve to maintain the status quo.[4]
- My Secret Life 1996
- Erotic Innocence: The culture of child molesting 1998
