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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810504903321

Autore

Corbett Mary Jean <1962->

Titolo

Family likeness : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

823/.809

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Families in literature

Sex in literature

Marriage in literature

Incest in literature

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

Sommario/riassunto

Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Virginia Woolf reflected the shifting boundaries of "family" and even helped refine those borders.