Incest in Victorian Literature - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Brophy, Robert J. “Tamar, The Cenci, and Incest.” In American Literature XLII, No. 2 (May 1970): 241-44.
A brief comparison of the treatment of the incest theme in Tamar and The Cenci.
Durbach, Errol. “The Geschwister-Komplex: Romantic Attitudes to Brother-Sister Incest in Ibsen, Byron, and Emily Brontë.” In Mosaic (Summer 1979): 61-73.
Examines an understanding of incest behavior as it relates to the nineteenth-century crisis of existence following the age of Enlightenment.
Garrett, Margaret Davenport. “Writing and Re-writing Incest in Mary Shelley's Mathilda.” In Keats-Shelley Journal XLV, (1996): 44-60.
Proposes that although Mathilda has generally been acknowledged as an autobiographical representation of the author's own life, it also showcases Shelley's evolving ideas about a woman's role in a love...
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