Gothic incest : Gender, sexuality and transgression

Gothic incest Gender, sexuality and transgression

The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationship...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: DiPlacidi, Jenny, author (author), DiPlacidi, Jenny, contributor (contributor)
Format: Electronic
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2018
Baltimore, Maryland : 2019
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Incest in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422297206719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : disrupting the critical genealogy of the Gothic
  • 'Unimaginable sensations' : father- daughter incest and the economics of exchange
  • 'My more than sister' : re- examining paradigms of sibling incest
  • Uncles and nieces : thefts, violence and sexual threats
  • More than just kissing : cousins and the changing status of family
  • Queer mothers : female sexual agency and male victims
  • Coda : incest and beyond.

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