Taboo and transgression in British literature from the Renaissance to the present
By: edited by Stefan Horlacher, Stefan Glomb, and Lars Heiler
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780230619906
Description: "Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present develops an innovative overview of the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to the topic that have emerged in recent years. Alongside exemplary model analyses of key periods and representative primary texts, this anthology of critical essays has been specifically designed to fill a major gap in the field of literary and cultural studies. This book traces the complex dynamic and ongoing negotiation of notions of transgression and taboo as an essential, though often neglected, facet to understanding the development, production, and conception of literature from the early modern Elizabethan period through postmodern debates."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I : Theoretical and historical perspectives.; title: Taboo, transgression, and literature : an introduction  -- Stefan Horlacher; title: Taboo and transgression : a socio-historical and socio-cultural perspective  -- Uwe Böker; title: Against censorship : literature, transgression, and taboo from a diachronic perspective -- Lars Heiler; title: pt. II : Literary analyses.; title: Hamlet, Macbeth, and "sovereign process"  -- John Drakakis; title: The taboo of revolutionary thought after 1660 and strategies of subversion in Milton's Paradise lost and Bunyan's The holy war  -- Jens Martin Gurr; title: Worshipping Cloacina in the eighteenth century : functions of scatology in Swift, Pope, Gay, and Sterne  -- Jens Martin Gurr; title: The organic uncanny : taboo, sexuality and death in British gothic novels  -- Stella Butter and Matthias Eitelmann; title: The age of transition as an age of transgression? Victorian poetry and the taboo of sexuality, love, and the body  -- Sarah Heinz; title: Metrical taboos, rhythmic transgressions : historico-cultural manipulations of the voice in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry  -- Clive Scott; title: "Logicized" taboo : abjection in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda  -- Annegreth Horatschek; title: Revaluating transgression in Ulysses  -- Stefan Glomb; title: Taboo, transgression and (self-)censorship in twentieth-century British theater  -- Folkert Degenring; title: The Holocaust and aesthetic transgression in contemporary British fiction -- Lars Heiler.