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The Ruins of Childhood

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Edited by Christine Clegg, Vicky Lebeau and Paul Myerscough

Lawrence and Wishart

Due/Published October 2001, 176 pages, paper

ISBN 0853159343

The Ruins of Childhood suggests new avenues for exploring the idea of childhood. Contributors discuss child abuse and child crime; the fantasies of Nabokov; the child in discourses of psychoanalysis and race; the child as material for adult sexual fantasy in literary representation; and the boundaries we construct between adults and children, adulthood and childhood.

Contributors: Adam Phillips, Douglas Oliver, Vicky Lebeau, Bernard O'Donoghue, David Marriott, Tanya Horeck, Marian Partington, John Wilkinson, Vincent Quinn, Lindsay Smith, Christine Clegg, Sebastian Mitchell, and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald.