Children and Sexuality

ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD Reader in Medieval Studies, University of Bristol, UK THOMAS BETTERIDGE Reader in Early Modern English Literature, Oxford Brookes University, UK ELLEKE BOEHMER Hildred Carlile Professor in English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK DAPHNE NASH BRIGGS Child Psychotherapist and Honorary Research Associate, the School of Archaeology, Oxford University, UK RICHARD DELLAMORA Departments of English and Cultural Studies, Trent University, Canada NICHOLAS S. DAVIDSON Tutor in History and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK ELISABETH DUTTON Senior Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature, Worcester College, Oxford, UK STEFANO EVANGELISTA Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK LAWRENCE GASQUET Senior Lecturer, the University Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, France MARK HARRISON Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK ALISON HENNEGAN Fellow Commoner and Director of Studies in English, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK JOSEPHINE MCDONAGH Professor of Victorian Literature, Oxford University, UK HEATHER MONTGOMERY Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, the Open University, UK ALFONSO MORENO Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Magdalen College, Oxford, UK WILLIAM G. NAPHY Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Aberdeen, UK JOSEPHINE CRAWLEY QUINN Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Worcester College, Oxford, UK GEORGE ROUSSEAU Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood, the University of Oxford, UK LINDSAY SMITH Professor of English, the University of Sussex, UK MICHAEL VICKERS Professor of Archaeology, the University of Oxford, UK KATHERINE D. WATSON Lecturer in the Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.