Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction

By: G. Hudson

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Paperback | 26 August 2016 | Edition Number 1

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At the end of all Jane Austen's novels, a social and moral group emerges that closely resembles a fraternity or sibship. Hudson's book examines Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the social and historical changes in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. It does so in a way that aims to be of interest to both the general and the academic reader. The study also analyzes the incest motif in numerous works of the period and argues how the handling of incestuous themes in "Mansfield Park", "Emma", and "Sense and Sensibility" represents a new stage in the development of the English novel. The book is aimed at departments of English literature (courses on the novel) and Jane Austen scholars.

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'Making historical connections that were ahead of its time, Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction offers original and fascinating readings in clear, graceful prose worthy of its subject. Moving beyond the facile labelling of Austen as 'conservative', Hudson makes a compelling argument for Austen's literary and social innovations.' - Devoney Looser, Indiana State University; editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism (1995) 'Glenda Hudson's chapters on symbolic incest in Austen's novels are stimulating and masterly. She places Austen's works in the contexts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romantic poetry and popular fiction in a way that will prove highly valuable to all scholars. This first-rate book will be the standard treatment of sibling relationships in Austen studies for years to come.' - John Halperin, Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University

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