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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
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Literary Analyses
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"Horlacher and his collaborators have re-opened the door on taboo. The collection is ground-breaking in its expansion of traditional definitions and its broad historical sweep. An introductory historical and theoretical section is followed by literary analyses displaying a rich variety of approaches to the disruptive powers of literary texts from early modern to contemporary. Taboo and Transgression is a timely provocation displaying a consistently high quality of critical theory and practice." - Ronald Corthell, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Kent State University
"With its chapters ranging from Renaissance literature to Postmodernism, Taboo and Transgression offers an unprecedented introduction to the topic. A fair balance of theoretical challenge and historical depth, as well as the representativeness of the literary examples - with a focus on highly canonized texts - will make the volume an ideal companion for English courses at university. This conceptually well-wrought, well-structured, and highly coherent volume will appeal to university teachers as well as (advanced) students of English literature and will provide a valuable fundament for further research on taboo/transgression in other media and in less-canonized texts." - Astrid Erll, Professor, University of Wuppertal
About the authors
STEFAN HORLACHER Professor of English Literature and Chair of the English Department at Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
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STEFAN GLOMB Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Mannheim University, Germany.
LARS HEILER Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures at the University of Kassel, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present
Editors: Stefan Horlacher, Stefan Glomb, Lars Heiler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230105997
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61990-6Published: 14 April 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10599-7Published: 15 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 269
Topics: Literary Theory, Social Sciences, general, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature