Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf / Mary Jean Corbett.
In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between grandparents and grandchildren. But for a widower to...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008. |
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