Incest and Influence : The Private Life of Bourgeois England / Adam Kuper.
Kuper, Adam, author.
2010
HQ1026 .K87 2009eb
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Title
Incest and Influence : The Private Life of Bourgeois England / Adam Kuper.
Author
Kuper, Adam, author.
ISBN
9780674054141
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054141
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (304 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674054141 doi
Call Number
HQ1026 .K87 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.85086/22094209034
Summary
Like many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. This groundbreaking study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain.
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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Prologue: Darwin's Marriage
Introduction
PART I. A question of incest
1. The Romance of Incest and the Love of Cousins
2. The Law of Incest
3. The Science of Incest and Heredity
PART II. Family concerns
4. The Family Business
5. Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect
6. Difficulties with Siblings
PART III. The intellectuals
7. The Bourgeois Intellectuals
8. The Bloomsbury Version
Coda: The End of the Line
Notes
Index

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