Transgression

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.