Incest and influence : the private life of Bourgeois England
Kuper, Adam200911UU
Book
Marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England. This title shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans - in finance and industry, in local and national politics, in the church, and in intellectual life.
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Imprint:
Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Collation:
304 p. : 19 line art ; 21x14x3 cm.
Notes:
Hardback. Sewn. Cloth over boards. With printed dust jacket.
Contents:
* Prologue: Darwin's Marriage * Introduction Part I: A Question of Incest * The Romance of Incest and the Love of Cousins * The Law of Incest * The Science of Incest and Heredity Part II: Family Concerns * The Family Business * Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect * Difficulties with Siblings Part III: The Intellectuals * The Bourgeois Intellectuals * The Bloomsbury Version * Coda: The End of the Line * Notes * Index.
Biography/History:
Adam Kuper is a Fellow of the British Academy.
ISBN:
9780674035898 (hbk)0674035895 (hbk)
Dewey class:
306.85
Local class:
306.85
Language:
English
Subject:
Consanguinity -- History -- 19th century -- EnglandCross-cousin marriage -- History -- 19th century -- EnglandCross cousin marriage -- History -- 19th century -- EnglandIncest -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century -- EnglandDomestic relations -- History -- 19th century -- EnglandMiddle class -- History -- 19th century -- EnglandElite (Social sciences) -- History -- 19th century -- England
BRN:
2426437