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Family likeness
Family likeness: sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf
Mary Jean Corbett
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2008.
ISBN: 0801447070   DDC: 823.809   LCC: PR868   Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.

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".

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 823.809 -- English fiction
LCC Number: PR868

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xiv, 264 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition Info: (cloth : alk. paper)

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•  Austen, Jane,1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation (176)
•  Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation (60)
•  Brontڽ, Charlotte,1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation (2)
•  English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism (1165)
•  English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism (563)
•  Family in literature (331)
•  Incest in literature (61)
•  Marriage in literature (197)
•  Sex in literature (929)
•  Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation (271)

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