Gothic Incest - Gender, Sexuality and Transgression

Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764–1847. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Jenny Diplacidi, Jenny DiPlacidi, Hunter Powell
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781784993061
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-306-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism