Transgressions in British and American Literatures and Cultures

This collection of essays focuses on transgressions and covers forms of transgression in Anglo-American literatures and cultures. It comprises of chapters on early modern, Victorian, and contemporary examples of transgression: from poetry and from drama and video art as well as from narrative texts. The poets, playwrights, artists, and novelists discussed are, among others, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ella Hickson, Sarah Kane, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, John Mil ...