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Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression

Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression

Diplacidi, Jenny

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Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1526148110
ISBN13: 9781526148117
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 20 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 Brontë, 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.

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