Jenny Diplacidi

Gothic incest (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, sexuality and transgression

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526107565
• Artikelnr.: 55007839

Autorenporträt

Jenny DiPlacidi is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Romanticism at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: disrupting the critical genealogy of the Gothic 1
'Unimaginable sensations': father-daughter incest and the economics of
exchange 2 'My more than sister': reexamining paradigms of sibling incest 3
Uncles and nieces: thefts, violence and sexual threats 4 More than just
kissing: cousins and the changing status of family 5 Queer mothers: female
sexual agency and male victims Conclusion: Incest and beyond Index