sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Corbett, Mary Jean
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 3 2008
- Thesaurus
- familierelaties, huwelijken, gezinnen, adoptie, seksualiteit, incest, literatuur, Victoriaanse tijd
- Description
- Based on an analysis of fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Virginia Woolf: legal and political debates: texts in sociology and anthropology: and discussions on the biology of heredity, breeding, and eugenics the author examines who is and is not a relative and whom one can and cannot marry. She argues that marriage within families —between cousins, in-laws or adoptees— offered Victorian women, both real and fictional, an attractive alternative to romance with a stranger, not least because it allowed them to maintain and strengthen relations with other women within the family.