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Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814 Claude Goldenberg University of Houston † ScottFrom the inadvertent marriage of a brother and sister in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders to the sexually charged intrafamilial relationships in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, a remarkable number of English novels written between 1684 and 1814 predicate their plots on the tabooed possibility of incest. In the first full length study to examine the striking prevalence of such plots in early English novels, Ellen Pollak focuses on literary representations of