
Manchester University Press
Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression
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9781784993061
ISBN13:
9781784993061
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$146.54

Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression
$146.54
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 Bront?, 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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.Author: Jenny Diplacidi |
Publisher: Manchester University Press |
Publication Date: Feb 08, 2018 |
Number of Pages: 312 pages |
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
ISBN-10: 1784993069 |
ISBN-13: 9781784993061 |