Gothic incest : Gender, sexuality and transgression / / Jenny Diplacidi.
The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationship...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2019 ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : disrupting the critical genealogy of the Gothic
- 'Unimaginable sensations' : father- daughter incest and the economics of exchange
- 'My more than sister' : re- examining paradigms of sibling incest
- Uncles and nieces : thefts, violence and sexual threats
- More than just kissing : cousins and the changing status of family
- Queer mothers : female sexual agency and male victims
- Coda : incest and beyond.