Romance's Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction

First demonstrating the ways Victorian anthropology and fiction propounded antithetical positions regarding exogamy and endogamy, Schaffer then analyzes Mansfield Park, Heartsease, and-stunningly-Wuthering Heights against the landscape of evolving views on marriage perpetuated by anthropologists (as...

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Published inStudies in the Novel Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 397 - 398
Main Author HOFFER, LAUREN N.
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Denton Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2016
Subjects
19th century
Anthropology
Disability
Fiction
Hypotheses
Marriage
Novels
REVIEWS
Romance languages
Social networks
Victorian period
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Summary:First demonstrating the ways Victorian anthropology and fiction propounded antithetical positions regarding exogamy and endogamy, Schaffer then analyzes Mansfield Park, Heartsease, and-stunningly-Wuthering Heights against the landscape of evolving views on marriage perpetuated by anthropologists (as well as by Freud) to recuperate our ability to understand cousin marriages not as "sexually diseased or politically retrograde" but as many Victorians did: as productively modeled on sibling love and capable of fortifying the family (148).
ISSN:0039-3827
1934-1512
DOI:10.1353/sdn.2016.0035