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1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The royal privilege of incest. "Worse than bogery": incest stories in Middle English literature / Elizabeth Archibald ; Incest and authority in Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Susan Frye ; Sexual and social mobility in The duchess of Malfi / Frank Whigham ; Incest and class: 'Tis pity she's a whore and the Borgias / Lisa Hopkins -- pt. 2. The fall of the fathers. The ambivalence of nature's law: representations of incest in Dryden and his English contemporaries / T.G.A. Nelson ; Natural and national unions: incest and sympathy in the early Republic / Elizabeth Barnes ; Temperance in the bed of a child: incest and social order in nineteenth-century America / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- pt. 3. The silence of the daughters. Incest in the story of Tancredi: Christine de Pizan's poetics of euphemism / Elizabeth Allen ; "Don't say such foolish things, dear": speaking incest in The voyage out / Jen Shelton ; "Father, don't you see I'm burning?": identification and re-membering in H.D.'s World War II writing / Madelyn Detloff -- pt. 4. Incest in the house of culture. Telling fact from fiction: Dorothy Allison's disciplinary stories / Gillian Harkins ; "Hereisthehouse": cultural spaces of incest in The bluest eye / Minrose C. Gwin -- Sexual trauma/queer memory: incest, lesbianism, and therapeutic culture / Ann Cvetkovich ; The new face of incest?: race, class, and the controversy over Kathryn Harrison's The kiss / Mako Yoshikawa. |
| Summary |
''Its range--both chronological and methodological--as well as the consistently high quality of its essays makes this collection stand out. A timely and important collection ... on literary representations of incest [that will] become the touchstone for further work in the field. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Incest in literature.
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Incest in literature. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Incest and the literary imagination. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2002 0813025400 (DLC) 2002020449 (OCoLC)49775380 |
| ISBN |
0813031095 (electronic book) |
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9780813031095 (electronic book) |
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