Primitive Marriage Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity

Primitive Marriage Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity
- ISBN 13:
9780192863720
- ISBN 10:
019286372X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 07/03/2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Temporalizing sexual relations, locating them in evolutionary and historical time, anthropologists and the novelists who wrote after them began to think modernity in sexual terms. This transformation of politics into sexual politics put sexuality and gender at the center of liberal stories of progress. The Victorian theorists responsible for this transformation--from well-known figures like Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud to lesser-known writers like John McLennan and Henry Maine--and the novelists who engaged them--Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Henry James, Sarah Grand, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy--not only helped produce sexually modern subjects, but also the theories about sexuality, time, and politics that we still draw upon to think modernity today.