Offers a significant reevaluation of the central concept of transgression and charts its cultural and historical development
Covers a broad range of literature from different historical periods including Epic verse and Gothic fiction
JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He has written and edited numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and literary theory.
Julian Wolfreys introduces 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.
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.
Julian Wolfreys introduces 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.
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Julian Wolfreys
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
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Julian Wolfreys introduces 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.
A stimulating introduction to the concept of literary transgression which shows students how to interpret it from various theoretical standpoints and demonstrates its historical development.
