TY  - BOOK
AU  - DiPlacidi, Jenny
AB  - The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationships in texts by authors including Emily Brontë, Eliza Parsons, Ann Radcliffe and Eleanor Sleath. The analyses, underpinned by historical, literary and cultural contexts, reveal that the incest thematic allowed writers to explore a range of related sexual, social and legal concerns. Through representations of incest, Gothic writers modelled alternative agencies, sexualities and family structures that remain relevant today.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt2204rt6
ID  - OAPEN ID: 645361
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1022625501
KW  - Literature
KW  - gender
KW  - sexuality
KW  - Gothic literature
KW  - incest
KW  - incestuous desire
KW  - Emily Brontë
KW  - Eliza Parsons
KW  - Ann Radcliffe
KW  - Eleanor Sleath
KW  - sexualities
KW  - Gothic writers
KW  - eighteenth century
KW  - Romantic
KW  - Gothic studies
KW  - gothic tradition
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - nineteenth century
KW  - Consanguinity
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Patriarchy
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/86cbc8cf-044a-42cc-999d-a6f759006800/645361.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30547
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester
PY  - 2018-02-24
SN  - 9781526107558
TI  - Gothic incest : Gender, sexuality and transgression
ER  - 
