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Stefan Horlacher is Professor of English Literature and Chair of the English Department at Dresden University of Technology. His Conceptions of Masculinity in the Works of Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence (2006, in German), won the Postdoctoral Award of the German Association of Professors of English.
Stefan Glomb is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Mannheim University. He is the author of Memory and Identity in Contemporary British Drama and the co-editor (with Stefan Horlacher) of Beyond Extremes: The Representation of and Reflexion on Processes of Modernization in the Contemporary British Novel.
Lars Heiler is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures at the University of Kassel. He is the author of Regression and Cultural Critique in the Contemporary British Novel (2004, in German) and the forthcoming Literature and Therapy: Precarious Negotiations.
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives | |
Taboo, Transgression, and Literature: An Introduction | p. 3 |
Taboo and Transgression: A Socio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective | p. 23 |
Against Censorship: Literature, Transgression, and Taboo from a Diachronic Perspective | p. 49 |
Literary Analyses | |
Hamlet, Macbeth, and 'Sovereign Process' | p. 75 |
The Taboo of Revolutionary Thought after 1660 and Strategies of Subversion in Milton's Paradise Lost and Bunyan's The Holy War | p. 99 |
Worshipping Cloacina in the Eighteenth Century: Functions of Scatology in Swift, Pope, Gay, and Sterne | p. 117 |
The Organic Uncanny: Taboo, Sexuality, and Death in British Gothic Novels | p. 135 |
The Age of Transition as an Age of Transgression? Victorian Poetry and the Taboo of Sexuality, Love, and the Body | p. 159 |
Metrical Taboos, Rhythmic Transgressions: Historico-Cultural Manipulations of the Voice in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry | p. 177 |
'Logicized' Taboo: Abjection in George Eliot's | p. 193 |
Revaluating Transgression in Ulysses | p. 211 |
Taboo, Transgression, and (Self-)Censorship in Twentieth-Century British Theater | p. 227 |
The Holocaust and Aesthetic Transgression in Contemporary British Fiction | p. 243 |
Editors and Contributors | p. 259 |
Index | p. 263 |
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