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'The Father's Seduction in Mary Shelley's "Mathilda"'

Steven Vine

News from Nowhere, Volume: 2, Pages: 57 - 74

Swansea University Author: Steven Vine

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The essay examines the contradictory figure of the ‘father’ in Mary Shelley’s 1819 novella, 'Mathilda, a tale of father-daughter incest. Highlighting the paradoxes of incestuous love in Romantic literature – in which father-daughter inces't is figured as oppression and sibling incest as tr...

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Published: 1997
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