Transgression. Identity, Space, Time

WOLFREYS, Julian (dir.), Transgression. Identity, Space, Time, New York, Palgrave Macmillan (Transitions), 2008, 240 p.
ISBN 978-0-333-75276-7

RÉSUMÉ

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.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Preface and Acknowledgements
General Editor's Preface
Introduction: Transgression or, the histories and fortunes of a modern concept
What is trangression and why do we need it?
The place of the transgressive in modern culture
Theories of the transgressive
The Gothic, the Foreign , and other late-eighteenth-century concerns
PART ONE: SEX AND DRUGS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
De Quincey and Coleridge: of addiction, fantasy and desire or the examples of The Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Kubla Khan
Transgressive Sexualities, or Wild(e) Nights in London and Vienna: The examples of Freud, Wilde, von Sacher Masoch
INTERTEXT: Modernism's transgressive sexuality and textuality
PART TWO: AESTHETIC AND MORAL TRANSGRESSIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
What's Love got to do with it? the examples of Lolita and Robert Mapplethorpe
I know it's only rock and roll, but I like it: Containing the other, marketing the transgressive, from Elvis to the Sex Pistols and Madonna
Of Trains, Aliens, Cannibals and other Fetishes: the Closets We Inhabit
Afterword: Of Consumerism and Coercion or, what's so transgressive about transgression anyway?
Annotated bibliography
Index

BIOGRAPHIE

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.