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Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf / Mary Jean Corbett.
- Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962-
- Date
- 2008
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Physical description
xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.
Contents
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".
Languages
- English
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineTPE.AIOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780801447075
- 0801447070