 | Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America Subjects: Incest -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Individualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Domestic relations -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Domestic Intimacies upends histories of the family, sexuality, and liberalism in nineteenth-century America by placing incest at the center of all of them, arguing that the simultaneous valorization of sentimental family and autonomous individual were constructed in relation to the threat of incest. Brian Connolly teaches history at the University of South Florida. |
