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Incest is an importantthematic element andplot device in literature, with famous early examples such asSophocles' classicOedipus Rex, atragedy in which the title character unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother.^[1] It occurs in medieval literature,^[2] both explicitly, as related by denizens of Hell inDante'sInferno, and winkingly, as betweenPandarus andCriseyde inChaucer'sTroilus.^[3] TheMarquis de Sade was famously fascinated with "perverse" sex acts such as incest,^[4] which recurs frequently in his works,The 120 Days of Sodom (1785),Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795), andJuliette (1797).

Vladimir Nabokov's novelAda or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) deals very heavily with the incestuous relationships in the intricate family tree of the main character, Van Veen.^[5]Ernesto Sábato'sOn Heroes and Tombs explores, among other subjects, the romantic relationship between a man and his daughter.^[6] In his novelHogg, written in 1969,Samuel R. Delany employed incest as a way to push the boundaries of heteronormative sex.^[7]Toni Morrison's debut novelThe Bluest Eye (1970) tells the story of Pecola, a young girl raped by her father.The Cement Garden (1978) byIan McEwan andFlowers in the Attic (1979) byV. C. Andrews explore the motive of teenage siblings attracted to each other.Dorothy Allison wrote about incest and sexual abuse inTrash: Short Stories (1988) andBastard Out of Carolina (1992).

In Japanese literature, thelight novel seriesMushoku Tensei (2012) has several depictions of incestuous relationships.

• Incest in folklore and mythology
• Incest in media
• Incest in the Bible – Incest - sexual relations between close relatives - as described in the Bible
• Incest pornography – Genre of pornography

• Szobel, Ilana (2021).Flesh of My Flesh: Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature. State University of New York Press.ISBN 978-1-4384-8457-0.
• Leeson, Miles Richard John, ed. (2018).Incest in contemporary literature. Manchester: Manchester university press.ISBN 978-1-5261-2216-2.
• Quilligan, Maureen (2005).Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England. University of Pennsylvania Press.ISBN 978-0-8122-1905-0.
• Rank, Otto (1992).The incest theme in literature and legend: fundamentals of a psychology of literary creation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.ISBN 978-0-8018-4176-7.
• Rodi-Risberg, Marinella (2022).Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s. Cham: Springer International Publishing.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-96619-5.ISBN 978-3-030-96618-8.
• Rouillard, Linda Marie (2020).Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance. Cham: Springer International Publishing.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35602-6.ISBN 978-3-030-35601-9.

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