Gothic incest

Jenny DiPlacidi

earliest edition we have, 2018 Manchester University Press, 2018 hardcover 312 pages

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...

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Gothic Incest edition · 2020 · Manchester University Press · 312 pages · 9781526148117
Gothic incest hardcover · 2018 · Manchester University Press · 312 pages · 9781784993061
Gothic Incest edition · 2018 · Manchester University Press · 9781526107565
Gothic incest edition · 2018 · Manchester University Press · 9781526107558

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