{"product_id":"incest-and-the-english-novel-16841814-9780801872044","title":"Incest and the English Novel 16841814","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirmly establishing the importance of the topic for understanding eighteenth-century English literature and culture, her work is bound to spur further discussion of the significance of incest discourses in the early modern period and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this imaginative and provocative study, the relationship between gender, incest and fiction is explored through a series of cultural, materialist and psychoanalytic readings of texts. -- Alison Stenton Times Literary Supplement 2004 Pollak's remarkable book has qualities typical of the best scholarly criticism: a thorough and assured grasp of the history and current discussions of the topic; the capacity to forcefully assert its own place in those discussions; and elegant movement between close readings and broader implications. Choice 2004 Pollak writes with clarity, conviction, and precision; she has authored a brilliant book, and literary studies will be richer for it. -- Alison Conway Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2005 Pollak's book is well worth reading for its illuminating analyses of individual novels; but it also does modern women a real service by using these close readings to denaturalize our false, present-day assumptions about incest. -- Eve Tavor South Atlantic Review 2005 Pollak succeeds in reading dialectically the discourse of sex, race, and class in the eighteenth-century novel, skillfully avoiding the traps of reifying categories. -- Ros Ballaster Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 2006 The reading is illuminating, perhaps paradigm-altering... This book should change the way we think about fiction in the future. Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Modernity, Incest, and Eighteenth-Century Narrative  2 Incest and Its Contingencies: Debates in Britain from the Reformation through the Eighteenth Century  3 Beyond Incest: Gender and the Politics of Transgression in Aphra Behn's Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister  4 Guarding the Succession of the (E)state: Incest and the Dangers of Representation in the Delarivier Manley's The New Atalantis  5 Moll Flanders, Incest, and the Structure of Exchange  6 Ingesting Incest: Maternity, Textuality, and the Problem of Origins  7 Incest and Liberty: Mansfield Park  Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527617913175,"sku":"9780801872044","price":37.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801872044.jpg?v=1731868564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/incest-and-the-english-novel-16841814-9780801872044","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}