Gothic incest : Gender, sexuality and transgression /

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 relationship...

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Hovedforfatter: DiPlacidi, Jenny (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction : disrupting the critical genealogy of the Gothic
  • 'Unimaginable sensations' : father- daughter incest and the economics of exchange
  • 'My more than sister' : re- examining paradigms of sibling incest
  • Uncles and nieces : thefts, violence and sexual threats
  • More than just kissing : cousins and the changing status of family
  • Queer mothers : female sexual agency and male victims
  • Coda : incest and beyond.