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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459958103321

Autore

Corbett Mary Jean <1962->

Titolo

Family Likeness [[electronic resource] ] : Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf / / Mary Jean Corbett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8014-5995-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

823/.809

Soggetti

Incest in literature

Marriage in literature

Sex in literature

Families in literature

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Brontèˆ -- Intercrossing, interbreeding, and The mill on the Floss -- Fictive kinship and natural affinities in Wives and daughters -- Virginia Woolf and Victorian "incests".