David Barrie

Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-in-Law (eBook, ePUB)

Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister in the Nineteenth Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running religious, social and political controversies in nineteenth-century Britain - the sixty five year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister. The issue captured the political, religious and literary imagination of the United Kingdom and provoked huge parliamentary and religious debate and aroused national, ecclesiastical and sexual passions. The campaign to legalise such unions, and the widespread opposition it provoked, spoke to issues not just of incest, sex and the family, but also to national identity and political and religious governance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351247832
• Artikelnr.: 55435784

Autorenporträt

David G. Barrie is Associate Professor of History at The University of Western Australia. He is series editor of Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice. His recent publications include (with Susan Broomhall) Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, in two volumes (Farnham, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'A Passage in Our History which We Could not Look back upon without Shame': The Roots of Discontent
c.1835-1848 2. Restraining the 'Devil in Our Sisters': James Wortley's Marriage Affinity Bills
1849-1851 3. The 'Misery of Scotch Law': Legal Precedents
Political Discourses and Literary Representations
c.1851-1862 4. 'Sleeping while the Enemy is Busy Sowing His Tares.' The Challenge to Scripture
c.1851-1888 5. 'The Man is Everything
and the Woman Nothing': Protecting
Purifying and Conceptualising the Family
1862-1888 6. 'It is Too Readily Assumed that all Those Who are Opposed to this Kind of Marriage are Idiots': Public Opinion
Party and Personal Conscience
1869-1906 7. 'It is Time this Controversy should End': Reform and Reaction
1907 Conclusion: A Woman's Question
a Man's Need
a Class's Interest?