...Elizabeth Freeman Everybody's Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America . By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Elizabeth Freeman is professor of English at the University of California...

... colonial encounters and has recently completed a book titled Prolepses:Queer/Early/Modern . © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Queer Nation, Female Nation: Marguerite de Navarre, Incest, and the State in Early Modern France Carla Freccero ollowing Foucault, feminist scholars...

... borrowed from the queen, she was so much horrified at the subject of the play that she formed an aversion to the author. Walpole, indeed, had expected that the public would disapprove of his tragedy because it concerned incest, and he had allowed Dodsley to publish it only after...

...” appeared in the December 1999 issue of MLQ. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-037 Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America. By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. Everybody’s Family Romance confronts the 1980s and 1990s...

...” appeared in the December 1999 issue of MLQ. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-037 Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America. By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. Everybody’s Family Romance confronts the 1980s and 1990s...

...” appeared in the December 1999 issue of MLQ. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-037 Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America. By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. Everybody’s Family Romance confronts the 1980s and 1990s...

...” appeared in the December 1999 issue of MLQ. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-037 Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America. By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. Everybody’s Family Romance confronts the 1980s and 1990s...

... Modernisms, with Douglas Mao (2006); and coeditor of the journal Contemporary Literature. Her essay “Shakespeare in Harlem: The Norton Anthology, ‘Propaganda,’ Langston Hughes” appeared in the December 1999 issue of MLQ. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-037 Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest...

... frank in hewing close to the traditional line, and offers an unsteady piece of evidence as an indication of the author’s shaky abilities. Slover thinks it “perfectly clear” that the incest motif belongs in SD, rooted in the Oenomaus and Hippodamia story, but instead of following...

... in his opening salvo, “the desire to make words into things and the desire to sleep with your sister are inseparable or even, as is the case with Quentin’s ‘I have committed incest I said’ . . . , indistinguishable” ( 1). The “desire to make words into things,” to fix meaning, finds expression...

... to blend his ethics and his poetry into a consistent whole” and “he fails to make it plain in what way the sins are connected with love.”4 Ter- ence Tiller has said of Genius that he is continuously reduced “to the anomalous position of-for instance-defending incest against the Church...

...-Strauss and the Man of Law par- take of the ideology (the “Law”) which envisions women as empty signs with arbitrary values assigned by men (p. 99). She insists that the Man of Law’s suppression of incest in his story is pivotal to a reading of the tale; that is, both the suppression of father...

... Corneille to recognize one another in time to avert betrayal, incest, and murder.* Occasionally characters in French drama confuse the force of blood with romantic love and mistake the magnetism of kin- ship for erotic attraction to someone who is really a sibling. Dryden uses the trope in this way...

... on to give definitive racial information. How can it have been so long taken for granted that blackness and blacks are damned and cursed? What are the supposed transgressions and sins for which they have been punished? The list, Sollors shows, is long and all-inclusive, from incest...

..., and finally the animal.ll The associations of the “Ur-Unflatigen, greuelhaft Altesten und heilig Vorheiligen” (fear of castration, fear of the son’s revolt which is prevented through his sacrifice or castration, incest, etc.)lz show the tension between the primary impulse to live according...

... of an encounter with an Egyptian prostitute-of the Orient with “dan- u n u y y y qe ro s ,” “1 ice t io s ,” and “ u n see m 1 ” sex 11 a 1it ; i n var iabl the 0r i- ent smacks of prostitution and incest, the Fatal Woman.48 In this passage Mitho...

..., “Mistral.”4Not until 1934 did he adopt Quentin as a narrator and character. Quentin, he said, was chosen because of his suicide and his bitterness, and as a way to keep the novel from the worst hoop-skirt failings of historical romance.5 Until this time incest, central to The Sound and the Fury...

... in eighteenth-century philosophy, Dolmancé calls on Voltaire, Rousseau, and Buffon to tear down, one by one, the prejudices that form Eugénie’s moral code: modesty, virtue, religion, chastity, beneficence, charity, sensibility. After examining the virtues, he attacks the vices: rape, incest, murder...

... “Terrible Motherabove, the human, lovely and attractive half; below, the horrible animal half, converted into a fear animal through the incest prohibition.” The attractiveness of the book is enhanced by four illustrations taken from Raphael, Westall, and Blake. The printing sometimes...

... in the story of the Squire of Dames and his encounter with Argante. As the Squire explains to Sir Satyrane, Argante and her brother Ollyphant were begotten when Typhoeus, drunk with madness and blood, committed incest with his mother Earth. Even within their mother’s womb, the two...