Everybody's family romance reading incest in neoliberal America - Harkins, Gillian (Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
Preface: Nobody?s home -- Introduction: Everybody?s family romance -- Laying down the law: the modernization of American incest -- Legal fantasies: populist trauma and the theater of memory -- Seduction by literature: sexual property and testimonial possession -- Surviving the family romance? Realism and the labor of incest -- Consensual relations: the scattered generations of kinship -- Conclusion: beyond the incest taboo.
Keywords: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Incest in literature