In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted
and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual …

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine From the inadvertent marriage of a brother
and sister in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders to the sexually charged intrafamilial relationships …

Aging by the Book offers an innovative look at the ways in which middle age, which for
centuries had been considered the prime of life, was transformed during the Victorian era …

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological
approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European …

Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance.
Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, focusing instead on marriage and parent …

Modern states are distinguished by the breadth and depth of public regulation over private
affairs. This aspect of state capacity and state power is predicated on frequent and dense …

This paper concerns optative or counterfactual self-understanding both in general and as it
shapes the narrative structure, moral psychology, and emotional logic of Charles Dickens's …

In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Brontë sisters, this book
represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontës and the …

But were another childhood-world my share, I would be born a little sister there.-George
Eliot," Brother and Sister Sonnets"(1874) e are-almost all-born into families, born into …

Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the
pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in …