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Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf /
In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between grandparents and grandchildren. But for a widower to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making and breaking the rules : an introduction
- "Cousins in love, &c." in Jane Austen
- Husband, wife, and sister : making and unmaking the early Victorian family
- Orphan stories : adoption and affinity in Charlotte Brontë
- Intercrossing, interbreeding, and The mill on the Floss
- Fictive kinship and natural affinities in Wives and daughters
- Virginia Woolf and Victorian "incests."