Transgression - Identity, Space, Time

Julian Wolfreysintroduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of''transgression'' and the way in which it has changed over time.>

List of contents

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Transgression or, Beyond the Obvious
PART ONE: MAKING THE MODERN SUBJECT
The 'Endlesse Worke' of Transgression: The Faerie Queene and the 'darke conceit' of Early Modern Identity
'Authority Usurpt': Dryden, Modern Subject and the Transgressive Entry of 'Literature' onto the Scene of History
PART TWO: HAUNTED SUBJECTS
Victorian Gothic: Towards an Ethnics of Transgression
'Gauzy impressions conjured out of nothing': Venice là-bas or, 'les lieux de la'
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index.

About the author

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Associate Professor in the department of English at the University of Florida, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Julian Wolfreys
• Assisted by: Julian Wolfreys (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2008
• EAN: 9780333752760
• ISBN: 978-0-333-75276-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Transitions; Transitions (Palgrave); Transitions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literary theory, Literature—Philosophy