Transgression: Identity, Space, Time

by Julian Wolfreys

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333752753
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/01/2008
Series:	Transitions , #61
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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 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.

Table 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.

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From the Publisher

Transgressions provides an exemplary introduction to the labyrinthine modes of reading that we now realize literary texts demand…. It is an invaluable, and eminently readable, guide to literary study.' - Juliet Flower McCannell, University of California, Irvine, USA