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Incest & influence : the private life of bourgeois England / Adam Kuper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuper, Adam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consanguinity--England--History--19th century.
- Consanguinity.
- Cross-cousin marriage--England--History--19th century.
- Cross-cousin marriage.
- Incest--Social aspects--England--History--19th century.
- Incest.
- Domestic relations--England--History--19th century.
- Domestic relations.
- Middle class--England--History--19th century.
- Middle class.
- Elite (Social sciences)--England--History--19th century.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Incest and influence
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Like many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. This groundbreaking study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain.
- Contents:
- The romance of incest and the love of cousins
- The law of incest
- The science of incest and heredity
- The family business
- Wilberforce and the Clapham sect
- Difficulties with siblings
- The bourgeois intellectuals
- The Bloomsbury version.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674054141
- 0674054148
- OCLC:
- 648757478
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