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Family Likeness : Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801459955
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Family LikenessDDC classification:
  • 823/.809
LOC classification:
  • PR868.F29 -- C67 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Making and Breaking the Rules: An Introduction -- "Cousins in Love, &amp -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Making and Breaking the Rules: An Introduction -- "Cousins in Love, &amp -- 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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