Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. Adolescence, innocence and power 21
5. The calamitous consequences of carnality 51
6. Queer carnalities 95
7. The beastly bestiality of adolescent desire 137
8. The abjection of abused adolescents 171
9. The end of innocence and the on-set of knowledge? 207
10. Corpus of novels and short stories for teenagers 215
11. Other works of fiction 221
12. Secondary sources 223
13. Index 233