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ISBN: 9780801872044
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ISBN10: 0801872049
Incest & the English Novel, 1684-1814
by Ellen Pollak
Description
From the inadvertent marriage of a brother and sister in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders to the sexually charged intrafamilial relationships in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, a remarkable number of English novels written between 1680 and 1814 predicate their plots on the tabooed possibility of incest.... Expand In the first full-length study to examine the striking prevalence of such plots in early English novels, Ellen Pollak focuses on literary representations of actual, averted, or imagined incest in works by Aphra Behn, Henry Fielding, and others, situating her readings in the context of changes in class and kinship organization that were taking place in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Considering incest narratives in the light of social and discursive transformations and of contemporary debates surrounding incest and its definition in the domains of religion, moral philosophy, and the law, Incest and the English Novel shows how stories about incest served as sites for both the production and the critique of modern notions of gender and sexuality.Collapse
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