Incest and the literary imagination /
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The royal privilege of incest. "Worse than bogery": incest stories in Middle English literature / Elizabeth Archibald ; Incest and authority in Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Susan Frye ; Sexual and social mobility in The duchess of Malfi / Frank Whigham ; Incest and class: 'Tis pity she's a whore and the Borgias / Lisa Hopkins
- Pt. 2. The fall of the fathers. The ambivalence of nature's law: representations of incest in Dryden and his English contemporaries / T.G.A. Nelson ; Natural and national unions: incest and sympathy in the early Republic / Elizabeth Barnes ; Temperance in the bed of a child: incest and social order in nineteenth-century America / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
- Pt. 3. The silence of the daughters. Incest in the story of Tancredi: Christine de Pizan's poetics of euphemism / Elizabeth Allen ; "Don't say such foolish things, dear": speaking incest in The voyage out / Jen Shelton ; "Father, don't you see I'm burning?": identification and re-membering in H.D.'s World War II writing / Madelyn Detloff
- Pt. 4. Incest in the house of culture. Telling fact from fiction: Dorothy Allison's disciplinary stories / Gillian Harkins ; "Hereisthehouse": cultural spaces of incest in The bluest eye / Minrose C. Gwin
- Sexual trauma/queer memory: incest, lesbianism, and therapeutic culture / Ann Cvetkovich ; The new face of incest?: race, class, and the controversy over Kathryn Harrison's The kiss / Mako Yoshikawa.