Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America

by Brian Connolly

Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a new prohibition organized around the nuclear family. Novelists crafted fictional tales of accidental incest resulting from the severed ties between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246217
• ISBN13: 9780812246216
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"