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Patriarchy and Incest from Shakespeare to Joyce » Read Now
by Jane M. Ford. 202 pgs.

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Using Shakespeare's incest plots as a backdrop, Jane Ford traces the incest theme in novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce, exploring in particular the father-daughter-suitor triangle.
As Ford demonstrates, three patterns predominate: the father eliminates the suitor...
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Using Shakespeare's incest plots as a backdrop, Jane Ford traces the incest theme in novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce, exploring in particular the father-daughter-suitor triangle.
As Ford demonstrates, three patterns predominate: the father eliminates the suitor and retains the daughter; the father submits to outside authority and relinquishes the daughter; or the father resolves the incest threat by choosing the daughter's suitor. Ford provides evidence that the fictive characters' incest conflicts often mirror the writer's own incest dilemmas, whether subliminal or not, and she points to textual evidence for the occurrence of actual incest in The Golden Bowl and Ulysses. In readings that break with traditional criticism, Ford maintains that each of the five writers wrote final works that seemed to return to a plot of retention of the daughter by the father.
Ford's book extends an important issue in 20th-century psychology into the study of major works of literature written in English.
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Neither Black nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (Chap. Ten "Incest and Miscegenation") » Read Now
by Werner Sollors. 574 pgs.

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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making...
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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? When did the myth that one can tell a person's race by the moon on their fingernails originate? How did blackness get associated with "the curse of Ham" when the Biblical text makes no reference to skin colour at all? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in Neither Black Nor White Yet Both, a new and exhaustively researched exploration of "interracial literature". In the past, interracial texts have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between". Intermarriage prohibitions have been legislated throughout the modern period and were still in the law books in the 1980s. Stories of black-white sexual and family relations have thus run against powerful social taboos. Yet much interracial literature has been written, and this book suggests its pervasiveness and offers new comparative and historical contexts for understanding it. Looking at authors from Heliodorus, John Stedman, Buffon, Thomas Jefferson, Heinrich von Kleist, Victor Hugo, Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin, and Hans Christian Andersen, to Lydia Marie Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Cirilo Villaverde, Aluisio Azevedo, and Pauline Hopkins, and on to modern writers such as Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, Boris Vian, and William Faulkner, Sollors ranges across time, space, and cultures, analysing scientific and legal works as well as poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, to explore the many themes and motifs interwoven throughout interracial literature. From the etymological origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," Sollors examines the recurrent images and ideas in this literature of love, family, and other relations between blacks, whites, and those of "mixed race." Sollors's interdisciplinary explorations of literary themes yield many insights into the history and politics of "race," and illuminate a new understanding of the relations between cultures through the focus on interracial exchanges. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both is vital reading for anyone who seeks to understand what has been written and said about "race," and where interracial relations can go from here.
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Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England: Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship (Chap. 2 "Incest and Tudor Literary Politics") » Read Now
by Bruce Thomas Boehrer. 194 pgs.

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...England Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England Literature, Culture, Kinship...Thomas. Monarchy and incest in Renaissance England: literature, culture, kinship...in...
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Original Vice: The Political Implications of Incest in the Early American Novel, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by Anne Dalke. 14 pgs.

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...For the first of many times in American literature, the threat of incest intercedes to prevent the marriage...expected of the well-to-do male. Incest in Wood gothic...
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Familial Love, Incest, and Female Desire in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Women's Novels, in Criticism » Read Now
by Julie Shaffer. 35 pgs.

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...only kind of incest in eighteenth...nineteenth-century literature. Each literary...Unwitting Sibling Incest in Eighteenth-Century Literature, in Studies...Sympathy: Sibling...
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To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance ("The Defiles of the Defiling Signifier: The Incestuous Union of Nature and the Word" begins on p. 111) » Read Now
by G. M. Goshgarian. 237 pgs.

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Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs ("Incest" begins on p. 649) » Read Now
by Jean-Charles Seigneuret. 690 pgs.

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"This index is a veritable who's who of the greats of Western literature. . . . The Board recommends it for every collection whose users conduct analytical studies of literature." Reference Books Bulletin
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Fancy's Images: Contexts, Settings, and Perspectives in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Chap. 10 "'A Little More Than Kin, and Less Than Kind': Incest, Intimacy, Narcissism, and Identity in Elizabethan and Stuart Drama") » Read Now
by Charles R. Forker. 210 pgs.

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...riding a cock an allegory of sodomy astride incest illustrates the usual attempt in Shakespeares culture to address forbidden desires...imply also found expression in the...
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Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Chap. 5 "Reading Myths and Mythemes after Freud: From Oedipal Incest to Oedipal Insight") » Read Now
by Debra A. Moddelmog. 176 pgs.

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...Papers on Language and Literature 23.2 1987 . Copyright...A Poetics for Myth in Fiction 15...Freud: From Oedipal Incest to Oedipal Insight...complex yet to be found in...
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Violence against Women in Medieval Texts (Chap. 5 "The Rhetoric of Incest in the Middle English Emare") » Read Now
by Anna Roberts. 258 pgs.

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This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal...
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This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents. In its use of well-known authors (Chaucer and Christine de Pizan) and lesser-known writers, this collection provides a rich and useful survey for researchers in women's studies and medieval literature.
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Politicizing Gender: Narrative Strategies in the aftermath of the French Revolution (Chap. 4 "Sexualizing Family Relations in Rene, Atala, and Atala au Tombeau") » Read Now
by Dorlis Y. Kadish. 200 pgs.

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...History and criticism. 9. Sex role in literature. 10. Narration Rhetoric PQ653.K3...15 3. Mixing Genders in Marat assassine and La Fille aux yeux...called the "Christ of...
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Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade (Discussion of incest begins on p. 46) » Read Now
by Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, Gillian C. Gill. 246 pgs.

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...breasts. In this manner, the crime of incest results in a male pregnancy, this time assigned...the father. This is why Sadean incest, in its most exacerbated forms...