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Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf / Mary Jean Corbett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation.
- Austen, Jane.
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Criticism and interpretation.
- Brontë, Charlotte.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Families in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Incest in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Virginia Woolf reflected the shifting boundaries of "family" and even helped refine those borders.
- 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 Brontë
- Intercrossing, interbreeding, and The mill on the Floss
- Fictive kinship and natural affinities in Wives and daughters
- Virginia Woolf and Victorian "incests".
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-5995-8
- OCLC:
- 726824313
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