Incest and Influence - The Private Life of Bourgeois England

Klappentext Marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England. This title shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans - in finance and industry! in local and national politics! in the church! and in intellectual life. Zusammenfassung Like many gentlemen of his time! Darwin married his first cousin. In fact! marriages between close relatives were commonplace in 19th-century England! and Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. This study brings out the connection between private lives! public fortunes! and the history of imperial Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Prologue: Darwin's Marriage * Introduction Part I: A Question of Incest * The Romance of Incest and the Love of Cousins * The Law of Incest * The Science of Incest and Heredity Part II: Family Concerns * The Family Business * Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect * Difficulties with Siblings Part III: The Intellectuals * The Bourgeois Intellectuals * The Bloomsbury Version * Coda: The End of the Line * Notes * Index

Product details

• Authors: Adam Kuper, Kuper Adam
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2009
• EAN: 9780674035898
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03589-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; History, Sociology, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural anthropology, Relationships and families: advice and issues, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General