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

Chapter 2 Taboo and Transgression: A Socio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective

Chapter 3 Against Censorship: Literature, Transgression, and Taboo from a Diachronic Perspective

Chapter 4 Hamlet, Macbeth, and ’Sovereign Process’

Chapter 5 The Taboo of Revolutionary Thought after 1660 and Strategies of Subversion in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Bunyan’s The Holy War

Chapter 6 Worshipping Cloacina in the Eighteenth Century: Functions of Scatology in Swift, Pope, Gay, and Sterne

Chapter 7 The Organic Uncanny: Taboo, Sexuality, and Death in British Gothic Novels

Chapter 8 The Age of Transition as an Age of Transgression? Victorian Poetry and the Taboo of Sexuality, Love, and the Body

Chapter 9 Metrical Taboos, Rhythmic Transgressions: Historico-Cultural Manipulations of the Voice In Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry

Chapter 10 ’Logicized’ Taboo: Abjection in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda

Chapter 11 Revaluating Transgression in Ulysses

Chapter 12 Taboo, Transgression, and (Self-)Censorship in Twentieth-Century British Theater

Chapter 13 The Holocaust and Aesthetic Transgression in Contemporary British Fiction