Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf
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.
Print Book, English, 2010
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Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY, 2010
XIV, 264 Seiten.
9780801476631, 0801476631
918202947
1. Making and Breaking the Rules: An Introduction2. "Cousins in Love, &c." in Jane Austen3. Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Unmaking the Early Victorian Family4. Orphan Stories: Adoption and Affinity in Charlotte Brontë5. Intercrossing, Interbreeding, and The Mill on the Floss6. Fictive Kinship and Natural Affinities in Wives and Daughters7. Virginia Woolf and Victorian "Incests"ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex