Forbidden Partners : : The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture / / James B. Twitchell.
Proposes that the unease we feel thinking and talking about incest is a learned behavior and examines the anxiety of incest as it has been continually refitted into fictional family structures since the turn of the 19th century.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 1987 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Enigma of Incest
- 2. The Horror of Incest
- 3. "Strange Fits of Passion": Incest in Romantic Art
- 4. "I Shall Be with You on Your Wedding Night": Incest in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
- 5. "The Disease of the Last of the Ushers": Incest in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
- Conclusion
- Appendix: A Synopsis of the Biological, Psychological, and Sociological Approaches to Incest
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index