Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf / Mary Jean Corbett.

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2008.

xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm

Making and breaking the rules : an introduction -- "Cousins in love, &c." in Jane Austen -- Husband, wife, and sister : making and unmaking the early Victorian family -- Orphan stories : adoption and affinity in Charlotte Brontë -- Intercrossing, interbreeding, and The mill on the Floss -- Fictive kinship and natural affinities in Wives and daughters -- Virginia Woolf and Victorian "incests".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.