03389cmm a2200361 4500 214801844 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 100719s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780674054141 electronic bk. 0674054148 electronic bk. 9780674035898 alk. paper 0674035895 alk. paper (OCoLC)648757478 N$T eng N$T OCLCQ E7B OCLCQ CNKEY FVL OCLCQ CBT TxAuBib Kuper, Adam. Incest & influence [electronic resource] : the private life of bourgeois England / Adam Kuper. Incest and influence. Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2009. 1 online resource (296 p.) : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue: Darwin's Marriage -- Introduction -- Part 1: Question Of Incest -- 1: Romance of incest and the love of cousins -- 2: Law of incest -- 3: Science of incest and heredity -- Part 2: Family Concerns -- 4: Family business -- 5: Wilberforce and the Clapham sect -- 6: Difficulties with siblings -- Part 3: Intellectuals -- 7: Bourgeois intellectuals -- 8: Bloomsbury version -- Coda: End of the line -- Notes -- Index. From the Publisher: Like many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. Incest and Influence shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans-in finance and industry, in local and national politics, in the church, and in intellectual life. In a richly detailed narrative, Kuper deploys his expertise as an anthropologist to analyze kin marriages among the Darwins and Wedgwoods, in Quaker and Jewish banking families, and in the Clapham Sect and their descendants over four generations, ending with a revealing account of the Bloomsbury Group, the most eccentric product of English bourgeois endogamy. These marriage strategies were the staple of novels, and contemporaries were obsessed with them. But there were concerns. Ideas about incest were in flux as theological doctrines were challenged. For forty years Victorian parliaments debated whether a man could marry his deceased wife's sister. Cousin marriage troubled scientists, including Charles Darwin and his cousin Francis Galton, provoking revolutionary ideas about breeding and heredity. This groundbreaking study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain. Consanguinity England History 19th century. Cross-cousin marriage England History 19th century. Incest Social aspects England History 19th century. Domestic relations England History 19th century. Middle class England History 19th century. Elite (Social sciences) England History 19th century. Family relationships Alternative Family. Family relationships Reference. Electronic books. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=327575 EBSCOhost