Jenny DiPlacidi is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Romanticism at the University of Kent

• Introduction: disrupting the critical genealogy of the Gothic 1 ‘Unimaginable sensations’: father-daughter incest and the economics of exchange2 ‘My more than sister’: reexamining paradigms of sibling incest 3 Uncles and nieces: thefts, violence and sexual threats 4 More than just kissing: cousins and the changing status of family 5 Queer mothers: female sexual agency and male victims Conclusion: Incest and beyond Index

Jenny DiPlacidi is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Romanticism at the University of Kent

• Introduction: disrupting the critical genealogy of the Gothic 1 ‘Unimaginable sensations’: father-daughter incest and the economics of exchange2 ‘My more than sister’: reexamining paradigms of sibling incest 3 Uncles and nieces: thefts, violence and sexual threats 4 More than just kissing: cousins and the changing status of family 5 Queer mothers: female sexual agency and male victims Conclusion: Incest and beyond Index

Jenny DiPlacidi is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Romanticism at the University of Kent

• Introduction: disrupting the critical genealogy of the Gothic 1 ‘Unimaginable sensations’: father-daughter incest and the economics of exchange2 ‘My more than sister’: reexamining paradigms of sibling incest 3 Uncles and nieces: thefts, violence and sexual threats 4 More than just kissing: cousins and the changing status of family 5 Queer mothers: female sexual agency and male victims Conclusion: Incest and beyond Index