SOURCE: "His Sister's Keeper: Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World," in To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance, Cornell University Press, 1992, pp. 76-120.
In the following essay, Goshgarian contends that the plot of Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World exemplifies the structure of male authority and female submission, a structure that idealizes the incestuous relationship.
