“...to poison and corrupt her soul”: Shelley’s Poetic Designs of Incest in The Cenci
This paper examines Percy Bysshe Shelley’s designs of the father-daughter incest in his tragedy The Cenci. It proposes that Shelley’s deviation from his historical source, concerning Count Cenci’s atrocities and Beatrice’s characterizations, insinuates the idea of incest as the embodiment of a dark...
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| description | This paper examines Percy Bysshe Shelley’s designs of the father-daughter incest in his tragedy The Cenci. It proposes that Shelley’s deviation from his historical source, concerning Count Cenci’s atrocities and Beatrice’s characterizations, insinuates the idea of incest as the embodiment of a dark poetics that features identity annihilation and assimilation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b00ca575aa8d4f85922fb7ded7e2c8122022-12-22T16:20:00ZengUniversity of EdinburghForum1749-97712017-05-012410.2218/forum.24.18791879“...to poison and corrupt her soul”: Shelley’s Poetic Designs of Incest in The CenciAmadeus Kang-Po Chen0University of EdinburghThis paper examines Percy Bysshe Shelley’s designs of the father-daughter incest in his tragedy The Cenci. It proposes that Shelley’s deviation from his historical source, concerning Count Cenci’s atrocities and Beatrice’s characterizations, insinuates the idea of incest as the embodiment of a dark poetics that features identity annihilation and assimilation.http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/1879 |
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| title | “...to poison and corrupt her soul”: Shelley’s Poetic Designs of Incest in The Cenci |
| title_full | “...to poison and corrupt her soul”: Shelley’s Poetic Designs of Incest in The Cenci |
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| title_short | “...to poison and corrupt her soul”: Shelley’s Poetic Designs of Incest in The Cenci |
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