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

Early American Studies

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

Brian Connolly

304 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction history medium-paced
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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, whi...

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