Family Likeness : Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf.
Corbett, Mary Jean.
Family Likeness : Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Making and Breaking the Rules: An Introduction -- "Cousins in Love, & -- c." in Jane Austen -- Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Unmaking the Early Victorian Family -- Orphan Stories: Adoption and Affinity in Charlotte Brontë -- Intercrossing, Interbreeding, and The Mill on the Floss -- Fictive Kinship and Natural Affinities in Wives and Daughters -- Virginia Woolf and Victorian "Incests" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
9780801459955
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Brontë, Charlotte, -- 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Sex in literature.
Electronic books.
PR868.F29 -- C67 2008eb
823/.809
Family Likeness : Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Making and Breaking the Rules: An Introduction -- "Cousins in Love, & -- c." in Jane Austen -- Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Unmaking the Early Victorian Family -- Orphan Stories: Adoption and Affinity in Charlotte Brontë -- Intercrossing, Interbreeding, and The Mill on the Floss -- Fictive Kinship and Natural Affinities in Wives and Daughters -- Virginia Woolf and Victorian "Incests" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
9780801459955
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Brontë, Charlotte, -- 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Sex in literature.
Electronic books.
PR868.F29 -- C67 2008eb
823/.809