Incest & influence : the private life of bourgeois England /

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From the Publisher: Like many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. Incest and Influence shows us...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kuper, Adam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Temas:
1800-1899
Consanguinity > England > History > 19th century.
Cross-cousin marriage > England > History > 19th century.
Incest > Social aspects > England > History > 19th century.
Domestic relations > England > History > 19th century.
Middle class > England > History > 19th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > England > History > 19th century.
Consanguinité > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mariage des cousins croisés > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Inceste > Aspect social > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Consanguinity
Cross-cousin marriage
Domestic relations
Elite (Social sciences)
Incest > Social aspects
Middle class
England
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Darwin's Marriage
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Question Of Incest
  • 1: Romance of incest and the love of cousins
  • 2: Law of incest
  • 3: Science of incest and heredity
  • Part 2: Family Concerns
  • 4: Family business
  • 5: Wilberforce and the Clapham sect
  • 6: Difficulties with siblings
  • Part 3: Intellectuals
  • 7: Bourgeois intellectuals
  • 8: Bloomsbury version
  • Coda: End of the line
  • Notes
  • Index.

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