Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.
Contents
Surviving psychoanalysis -- The law of the (nameless) father : Mary Shelley's Mathilda and the incest taboo -- Covert incest : Frankenstein after Oedipus -- True crimes of motherhood : mother daughter incest and dissociative disorders -- Desiring daughters, seductive sisters : incested agency -- Oprah Winfrey's "Scared silent" and the spectatorship of incest.