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.

• General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Transgression or, Beyond the ObviousPART ONE: MAKING THE MODERN SUBJECTThe '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 HistoryPART TWO: HAUNTED SUBJECTSVictorian Gothic: Towards an Ethnics of Transgression'Gauzy impressions conjured out of nothing': Venice là-bas or, 'les lieux de la'AfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex.

'Transgressions provides an exemplary introduction to the labyrinthine modes of reading that we now realize literary texts demand... It is an invaluable, and eminently readable, guide to literary study.' - Juliet Flower McCannell, University of California, Irvine, USA