The Incest Taboo in Wuthering Heights : A Modern Appraisal
Description:
A modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights suggests that an unconscious incest taboo impeded Catherine and her foster brother, Heathcliff, from achieving normal sexual union and led them to seek union after death. Insights from anthropology, psychology, and sociology provide a key to many of the subtleties of the novel by broadening our perspectives on the causes of incest, its manifestations, and its consequences. Anthropology links the incest taboo to primitive systems of totemism and rules…
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Date:
August 1992
Creator:
McGuire, Kathryn B. (Kathryn Bezard)