Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814

by Ellen Pollak

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

From the inadvertent marriage of a brother and sister in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders to the sexually charged intrafamilial relationships in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, a remarkable number of English novels written between 1684 and 1814 predicate their plots on the tabooed possibility of incest. In the first full-length study to examine the striking prevalence of such plots...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872049
• ISBN13: 9780801872044
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"