Forbidden Partners : The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture / James B. Twitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twitchell, James B., 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incest--United States.

Incest.

Incest in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1987]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231882385

0231882386

OCLC:

1100429689