Everybody's family romance
Subtitle: reading incest in neoliberal America
By: Gillian Harkins.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780816653478; 9780816653485
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Incest in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Nobody's home; title: Introduction: Everybody's family romance; title: Laying down the law: modernization of American incest; title: Legal fantasies: populist trauma and the theater of memory; title: Seduction by literature: sexual property and testimonial possession; title: Surviving the family romance, realism and the labor of incest; title: Consensual relations: scattered generations of kinship; title: Conclusion: beyond the incest taboo