Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780312211134
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Women Authors; Social Science / Women's Studies; Women's Studies - General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachment are ever outlived.