Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England by Adam Kuper

Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England

Adam Kuper

296 pages 2009

2 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Like many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeois...

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