Chapter 7 Resistive Embodiment and Incestuous Desire in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Editors’ Acknowledgements x
5. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2 Feminising Romantic Sexuality, Perverting Feminine Romanticism 14
7. Chapter 3 Reorienting Multi-dimensional Sex with Objects in Millenium Hall 30
8. Chapter 4 The Necrophilia of Wollstonecraft’s ‘The Cave of Fancy’ 52
9. Chapter 5 Sexual Violence, Sexual Transgression and the Law in Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice 72
10. Chapter 6 ‘Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn’: Barbauld, Masturbation and the Novel 86
11. Chapter 7 Resistive Embodiment and Incestuous Desire in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda 106
12. Chapter 8 ‘Our Dire Transgression’: Mary Diana Dods in the Biblical Sense 126
13. Chapter 9 George Sand, Indiana and the Transgressive Work of Idealism 139
14. Chapter 10 Emily Brontë’s Shelleyan Poetics of Sexual Ambivalence 158
15. Chapter 11 Primroses in the Porridge: Hareton Earnshaw’s Transgression against his Homosocial Family in Wuthering Heights 174
16. Index 191