James Russell Kincaid

A memoir by an adventurous Victorian Londoner chronicles his precocious childhood sexuality through the end of his "amatory career," during which he engaged in hundreds of romantic interludes with lovers from all walks of life. Reprint.

My Secret Life

Kincaid argues that the funny Dickens and the "dark" Dickens are one, and that our response to his humour is no less important is Little Dorrit than in Pickwick.

Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter

Built on detailed research, Child-Loving traces the growth of Victorian - and modern - concepts of the child and child sexuality. Kincaid argues that the Victorians regarded children in ways that now seem complex and bizarre. However, he also asks if we fare any better today.

The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture

Child-loving

Edward Guiliano

Special Lewis Carroll Issue ; Essays on Lewis Caroll's Life and Art

Soaring with the Dodo

Explores the current preoccupation with child molesting and children’s sexuality and the ways that this degree of fascination is itself suspect.

James Russell Kincaid

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