UID:
almafu_9959238414502883
Format:
1 online resource (389 p.)
ISBN:
0-8130-3109-5
Content:
''Its range--both chronological and methodological--as well as the consistently high quality of its essays makes this collection stand out. A timely and important collection . . . on literary representations of incest [that will] become the touchstone for further work in the field.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents; I. The Royal Privilege of Incest; 1. "Worse Than Bogery": Incest Stories in Middle English Literature 17; 2. Incest and Authority in Pericles, Prince of Tyre 39; 3. Sexual and Social Mobility in The Duchess of Malfi 59; 4. Incest and Class: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the Borgias 94; II. The Fall of the Fathers; 5. The Ambivalence of Nature's Law: Representations of Incest in Drydenand His English Contemporaries 117; 6. Natural and National Unions: Incest and Sympathy in the Early Republic 138
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7. Temperance in the Bed of a Child: Incest and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century America 156III. The Silence of the Daughters; 8. Incest in the Story of Tancredi: Christine de Pizan's Poetics of Euphemism 191; 9. "Don't Say Such Foolish Things, Dear": Speaking Incest in The Voyage Out 224; 10. "Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?": Identification and Re-membering in H.D.'s World War II Writing 249; IV. Incest in the House of Culture; 11. Telling Fact from Fiction: Dorothy Allison's Disciplinary Stories 283; 12. "Hereisthehouse": Cultural Spaces of Incest in The Bluest Eye 316
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13. Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism, and Therapeutic Culture 32914. The New Face of Incest?: Race, Class, and the Controversy over Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss 358; Contributors 377; Index 379
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8130-2540-0
Language:
English
