Gothic Incest : Gender, Sexuality and Transgression
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Overview
The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationships in texts by authors including Emily Bront , Eliza Parsons, Ann Radcliffe and Eleanor Sleath. The analyses, underpinned by historical, literary and cultural contexts, reveal that the incest thematic allowed writers to explore a range of related sexual, social and legal concerns. Through representations of incest, Gothic writers modelled alternative agencies, sexualities and family structures that remain relevant today.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9781784993061
- ISBN-10: 1784993069
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publish Date: February 2018
- Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 312
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