TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuper,Adam
TI  - Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England
SN  - 9780674054141
AV  - HQ1026 
U1  - 306.85086 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Consanguinity-England-History-19th century
KW  - Cross-cousin marriage-England-History-19th century
KW  - Incest-Social aspects-England-History-19th century
KW  - Domestic relations-England-History-19th century
KW  - Middle class-England-History-19th century
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)-England-History-19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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