PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Taboo, Trans?gression and Literature: An Introduction; S.Horlacher Taboo and Transgression: A Socio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective; U.Böker Against Censorship: Literature, Transgression and Taboo from a Diachronic Perspective; L.Heiler PART II: LITERARY ANALYSES Hamlet, Macbeth and 'Sovereign Process'; J.Drakakis The Taboo of Revolutionary Thought after 1660 and Strategies of Subversion in Milton's Paradise Lost and Bun?yan's The Holy War; J.M.Gurr Worshipping Cloacina in the Eighteenth Century: Functions of Scatology in Swift, Pope, Gay, and Sterne; J.M.Gurr The Organic Uncanny: Taboo, Sexuality and Death in British Gothic Novels; S.Butter & M.Eitelmann The Age of Transition as an Age of Trans?gression? Victorian Poetry and the Taboo of Sexuality, Love and the Body; S.Heinz Metrical Taboos, Rhythmic Transgressions: Historico-Cultural Manipulations of the Voice in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry; C.Scott 'Logicized' Taboo: Abjection in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda; A.Horatschek Revaluating Transgression in Ulysses; S.Glomb Taboo, Transgression and (Self-)Censorship in Twentieth-Century British Theater; F.Degenring The Holocaust and Aesthetic Transgression in Con?temporary British Fiction; L.Heiler