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Mary Jean Corbett - Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf - 9780801447075 - V9780801447075
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Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf

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Description for Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.

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 marry his deceased wife's sister was illegal on the grounds that it constituted incest. That these laws and the mores they reflect strike us today as wrongheaded indicates how much ideas about kinship, marriage, and incest have changed.

In Family Likeness, Mary Jean Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801447075
SKU
V9780801447075
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Mary Jean Corbett
Mary Jean Corbett is John W. Steube Professor of English and Affiliate of Women's Studies, Miami University. She is the author of Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870 and Representing Femininity.

Reviews for Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf
Corbett's readings of Victorian novels are informed by Foucault and Judith Butler, and illuminated by intersecting contemporary economic, religious, racial, class, biological, and anthropological discourses. Drawing on a fascinating range of primary documentation, she emphasizes the 'stringent limits to what we can know,' pointing out, for example, that incestuous sexual abuse came to be regarded as a working-class, or 'savage,' ... Read more

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