Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present

The combination of a broad theoretical and historical framework covering almost fifty representative authors and uvres makes this essential reading for students and specialists alike in the fields of literary studies and cultural studies.

PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Taboo, Trans?gression and Literature: An Introduction; S.Horlacher Taboo and Transgression: A Socio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective; U.Böker Against Censorship: Literature, Transgression and Taboo from a Diachronic Perspective; L.Heiler PART II: LITERARY ANALYSES Hamlet, Macbeth and ''Sovereign Process''; J.Drakakis The Taboo of Revolutionary Thought after 1660 and Strategies of Subversion in Milton''s Paradise Lost and Bun?yan''s The Holy War; J.M.Gurr Worshipping Cloacina in the Eighteenth Century: Functions of Scatology in Swift, Pope, Gay, and Sterne; J.M.Gurr The Organic Uncanny: Taboo, Sexuality and Death in British Gothic Novels; S.Butter & M.Eitelmann The Age of Transition as an Age of Trans?gression? Victorian Poetry and the Taboo of Sexuality, Love and the Body; S.Heinz Metrical Taboos, Rhythmic Transgressions: Historico-Cultural Manipulations of the Voice in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry; C.Scott ''Logicized'' Taboo: Abjection in George Eliot''s Daniel Deronda; A.Horatschek Revaluating Transgression in Ulysses; S.Glomb Taboo, Transgression and (Self-)Censorship in Twentieth-Century British Theater; F.Degenring The Holocaust and Aesthetic Transgression in Con?temporary British Fiction; L.Heiler