Family Likeness : Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Woolf, Virginia.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn.
Eliot, George. > Mill on the Floss.
Brontë, Charlotte.
Austen, Jane. > Mansfield Park.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941.
Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855 > Criticism and interpretation.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sexualität
Familie > Motiv
Sex in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Incest in literature.
Families in literature.
English fiction > Women authors.
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Inceste dans la litterature.
Mariage dans la litterature.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Familles dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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."

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