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Family likeness, sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf, Mary Jean Corbett

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Family likeness, sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf, Mary Jean Corbett
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Family likeness
Responsibility statement
Mary Jean Corbett
Sub title
sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf
Table Of 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 Bronte -- Intercrossing, interbreeding, and The mill on the Floss -- Fictive kinship and natural affinities in Wives and daughters -- Virginia Woolf and Victorian "incests"
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