Incest in Contemporary Literature

This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day. It considers a number of key authors and artists, rather than a single author from this period. The collection exposes the wide use of incest and sexual trauma, and the frequency this appears within contemporary literature and related arts. Incest in contemporary literature discusses the impact of this change in attitudes on literature and literary adaptations in the latter half of the twentieth century, and early years of the twenty-first century. Although primarily concerned with fiction, the collection includes work on television and film. Authors discussed include Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.

ISBN:	9781526122162
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Published date:	10 Aug 2018
DEWEY:	809.93353
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	304
Weight:	606g
Height:	236mm
Width:	162mm
Spine width:	29mm

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