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Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-In-Law: Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister in the Nineteenth Century

Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-In-Law: Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister in the Nineteenth Century

Barrie, David

Hardcover

General LawGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 081537092X
ISBN13: 9780815370925
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 8 2018
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain - the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister. The issue captured the political, religious and literary imagination of the United Kingdom. It provoked huge parliamentary and religious debate and aroused national, ecclesiastical and sexual passions. The campaign to legalise such unions, and the widespread opposition it provoked, spoke to issues not just of incest, sex and the family, but also to national identity and political and religious governance.

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