Domestic Intimacies Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America |
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| Author:
| Connolly, Brian |
| Series title: | Early American Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-1-322-51408-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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"Domestic Intimacies" upends histories of the family, sexuality, and liberalism in nineteenth-century America by placing incest at the center of all of them, arguing that the simultaneous valorization of sentimental family and autonomous individual were constructed in relation to the threat of incest.
"Domestic Intimacies" upends histories of the family, sexuality, and liberalism in nineteenth-century America by placing incest at the center of all of them, arguing that the simultaneous valorization of sentimental family and autonomous individual were constructed in relation to the threat of incest.