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Preface: Nobody's Home
Introduction: Everybody's Family Romance
1. Laying down the Law: The Modernization of American Incest
2. Legal Fantasies: Populist Trauma and the Theater of Memory
3. Seduction by Literature: Sexual Property and Testimonial Possession
4. Surviving the Family Romance? Realism and the Labor of Incest
5. Consensual Relations: The Scattered Generations of Kinship
Conclusion: Beyond the Incest Taboo
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Everybodys Family Romance Reading Incest in

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 02/11/2009
      ISBN13: 9780816653485, 978-0816653485
      ISBN10: 0816653488
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Preface: Nobody's Home
      Introduction: Everybody's Family Romance
      1. Laying down the Law: The Modernization of American Incest
      2. Legal Fantasies: Populist Trauma and the Theater of Memory
      3. Seduction by Literature: Sexual Property and Testimonial Possession
      4. Surviving the Family Romance? Realism and the Labor of Incest
      5. Consensual Relations: The Scattered Generations of Kinship
      Conclusion: Beyond the Incest Taboo
      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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