ISBN:
9781526107558
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 304 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als DiPlacidi, Jenny Gothic incest
Keywords:
Literature History and criticism
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Literary Criticism / European
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Englisch
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Gothic novel
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Geschlecht
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Sexualität
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Transgression
Abstract:
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 relationships in texts by authors including Emily Brontë, Eliza Parsons, Ann Radcliffe and Eleanor Sleath. The analyses, underpinned by historical, literary and cultural contexts, reveal that the incest thematic allowed writers to explore a range of related sexual, social and legal concerns. Through representations of incest, Gothic writers modelled alternative agencies, sexualities and family structures that remain relevant today
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