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Incest and Influence : The Private Life of Bourgeois England.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674054141
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Incest and InfluenceDDC classification:
  • 306.85086
LOC classification:
  • HQ1026
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Darwin's Marriage -- Introduction -- Part I: A Question of Incest -- 1. The Romance of Incest and the Love of Cousins -- 2. The Law of Incest -- 3. The Science of Incest and Heredity -- Part II: Family Concerns -- 4. The Family Business -- 5. Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect -- 6. Difficulties with Siblings -- Part III: The Intellectuals -- 7. The Bourgeois Intellectuals -- 8. The Bloomsbury Version -- Coda: The End of the Line -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Like many gentlemen of his time, Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in 19th-century England, and Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. This study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Darwin's Marriage -- Introduction -- Part I: A Question of Incest -- 1. The Romance of Incest and the Love of Cousins -- 2. The Law of Incest -- 3. The Science of Incest and Heredity -- Part II: Family Concerns -- 4. The Family Business -- 5. Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect -- 6. Difficulties with Siblings -- Part III: The Intellectuals -- 7. The Bourgeois Intellectuals -- 8. The Bloomsbury Version -- Coda: The End of the Line -- Notes -- Index.

Like many gentlemen of his time, Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in 19th-century England, and Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. This study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain.

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