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Article: Incest, Sexuality, and Modernity
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Incest, Sexuality, and Modernity ELLEN POLLAK, Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003), pp. 280, hardcover, $39.95
Incest narratives abound in the eighteenth century. So it is strange that their significance has remained largely unexplored within literary scholarship. Part of the reason for this, as Ellen Pollak explains in Incest and the Novel, her path-breaking book and the first monograph the topic has attracted, is that we are accustomed to thinking about incest anachronistically. On the one hand, she argues, we see incest as the forbidden desire lurking at the heart of modern sexuality-a legacy of Romanticism. On the other, we see the prohibition of ...
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...incest taboo The social prohibition of sexual relations between certain categories of kin—especially close kin. Incest taboos, whether formal or implicit, have been shown to...specific formulations. This apparent universality has made incest a prominent subject of anthropological research since the...
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