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Autore |
Corbett Mary Jean <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf / / Mary Jean Corbett |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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". |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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