Forbidden Partners
The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2019
312 pages
978-0-231-88238-5 (ISBN)
Description
Proposes that the unease we feel thinking and talking about incest is a learned behavior and examines the anxiety of incest as it has been continually refitted into fictional family structures since the turn of the 19th century.
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01/2020
Columbia University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Enigma of Incest
- 2. The Horror of Incest
- 3. "Strange Fits of Passion": Incest in Romantic Art
- 4. "I Shall Be with You on Your Wedding Night": Incest in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
- 5. "The Disease of the Last of the Ushers": Incest in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
- Conclusion
- Appendix: A Synopsis of the Biological, Psychological, and Sociological Approaches to Incest
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
