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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 298–301.
Published: 01 November 2005
...LISA O’CONNELL ELLEN POLLAK, Incest and the English Novel, 1684–1814 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003), pp. 280, hardcover, $39.95 Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Incest, Sexuality, and Modernity
ELLEN POLL* Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of national consanguinity. What remains to be theorized in relation to this, however, is the significance of the novel's predominant obsession with sound, both as literary style and as narrative event. This essay proposes that by considering the scientific and literary sources of the sonic framework of incest...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 364–385.
Published: 01 November 2013
... contests the multivalent structures of hysteria, trauma, miscegenation, and incest in an effort to undermine dominant modes of representing African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century. On the other hand, critics such as Cynthia Schrager and Colleen O'Brien have looked to the ways in which...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the civil rights era; toward the possibility of homoerotic love
hovering at the fringe of the black power movement, with its potential for brotherhood and
solidarity; to the later twentieth century, where the specter of incest—which has such a
dramatic presence in the work of contemporary black women...
Journal Article
Novel (2012) 45 (1): 148–151.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Patrick O'Donnell WEINSTEIN PHILIP , Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner ( New York : Oxford UP , 2010 ), pp. 250 , cloth, $29.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Work Cited Irwin John T. Doubling and Incest / Repetition...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 24–45.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of Nebraska P, 1983 . Pollak , Ellen . “Moll Flanders, Incest, and the Structure of Exchange.” The Eighteenth Century 30 ( 1989 ): 3 –21. Rawls , John . Political Liberalism . New York: Columbia UP, 1993 . Richetti , John . Defoe’s Narratives: Situations and Structures...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 436–438.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of unauthorized
sexuality-romantic friendship, sodomy, tribadism, incest, necromantic desires,
etcshimmer with subversive potential" across the history of the gothic, countering the
"increasingly dictatorial reign of [bourgeois] values" and laying the groundwork for
modes of sexological thinking...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of incest and a gunshot
wound upon the female protagonist's achievement of realist distinction. Like Densher's,
Nona's denouement is a painful one, as she confronts what Barrish takes to be Wharton's
version of the realest reality: "For an American woman to grow up nkms not only for her...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 279–282.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... In "The Bear," the ledger not only tells the founding story of
Old Carothers' rape and incest but, tlwough its lists of everyday items, conveys the "con-
tours" of slaves' lives. In Ike's readings "these black men and women themselves 'took sub-
stance and even a sort of shadowy life with their passions...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 280–283.
Published: 01 August 2006
... as formal assessments. His
account of One Hundred Years of Solitude, for example, seems more sanguine about the ac-
tions of time and the narrative "generosity toward what can happen" (which indltdes
incest) than the novel itself~speciallyits ending-seems to advise. I suspect this has to do...
Journal Article
Novel (2012) 45 (1): 124–128.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., Of One Blood,
serially published in 1902–3. Goyal asserts that Hopkins’s last novel “takes a dramatically
different turn,” away from the “genteel domesticity” of her earlier works and toward the
romantic with a mixture of “incest, reanimation of the dead, hypnotism, ghosts, a treasure
hunt...
Journal Article
Novel (2013) 46 (1): 153–157.
Published: 01 May 2013
... are transformed into relations. Since no
nuclear unit can reproduce itself without incest, the family must finally admit a stranger
whose strangeness it will try to neutralize, “assimilat[ing] him to the syntax of geneal-
ogy and kinship, rerouting his energies back into family life” (14...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
...
a position somewhere as a gamete, knowing transparently and without agonis-
tic searching his relationship to his family as expressed through his genome; he
describes genes lining up, proteins sequencing and the like. The parodic tragic
chorus renders incest merely humorous rather than representative...
Journal Article
Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Euclid set the paradigm, Jude and Sue consummate an outlaw passion, resistant to marriage norms. Theirs is a bond despite expanding conceptions of incest and new restrictions on cousin relations, a bond despite their aging aunt's familial interdictions, a bond that wreaks two legal divorces and two...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 53–59.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of Victorian
anthropology—the marriage and kinship strand in McClennan and the religion
and technology strand in Tylor—into one unified whole connected by the idea of
fertility. In Frazer, sex is less a matter of incest, social structure, and marriage rela-
tions and more a matter of elemental religio...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 124–131.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to detect or pin down the criminal injustices, the ancestral incest, that
occurred long ago. Most important, the traces of this agonizing or traumatic event
are listed in a manner “long past any oral intercourse,” and thus the “implacable
succession” (252) of this chronicle becomes a permanent “part...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 229–248.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990.
Garlitz, Barbara. “The Immortality Ode: Its Cultural Progeny.” Studies in English Literature,
1500–1900 6 (1966): 639–49.
Goldstein, Joseph. “On Being Adult and Being an Adult in Secular Law.” Daedalus 105.4
(1976): 69–87.
Habegger, Alfred. “Precocious Incest...
Journal Article
Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 77–103.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of American Nationhood. Jeffersonian America . Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2000 . Patterson , ’Orlando . Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982 . Pollak , Ellen . Incest and the English Novel, 1684–1814 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003...
Journal Article
Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 5–17.
Published: 01 August 2007
... it, from the very beginning he can neither integrate
the second Logan into the exchanges structuring the novel, nor give him an exis-
tence separate and apart from those exchanges. Indeed, we might read the entire
novel as a constellation of self-negating exchanges for which incest...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (1): 97–111.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., for example, the incest rumor that plagues Philip Weatherby and Mary Pomfret. Hentea argues that the novel's plot is concerned with generational thinking and with the anxieties of heredity and inheritance ( Limits 26 ). As children, Philip and Mary are thus rehearsals of their parents. The possibility...
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