Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression

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 Bront?, Eliza Parsons, Ann Radcliffe and Eleanor Sleath. The analyses, underpinned by historical, literary and cultural contexts, reveal that the incest thematic allowed writers to explore a range of related sexual, social and legal concerns. Through representations of incest, Gothic writers modelled alternative agencies, sexualities and family structures that remain relevant today.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Author: Jenny Diplacidi
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 03/20/2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781526148117