Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Contexts for the Consideration of the Transgressive Antitype
Part I - Transgressive Words
1 - “Queer to Queer”: The Sapphic Body as Transgressive Text
2 - Claiming the “Sacred Mantle”: The Memoirs of Lætitia Pilkington
3 - Elizabeth Carter’s Self-Pun-ishment: Puns, Pedantry, and Polite Learning
Part II - Transgressive Images
4 - A Carnival of Mirrors: The Grotesque Body of the Eighteenth-Century British Masquerade
5 - Lustful Widows and Old Maids in Late Eighteenth-Century English Caricatures
6 - Sensibility and Speculation: Emma Hamilton
Part III - Transgressive Acts
7 - “Every Like Is Not the Same,” or Is It?: Gender, Criminal Biographies, and the Politics of Indifference
8 - Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires: Representations of Guilt and Innocence in Legal and Literary Texts, 1753-1989
9 - A Mistress, a Mother, and a Murderess Too: Elizabeth Brownrigg and the Social Construction of an Eighteenth-Century Mistress
Part IV - Transgressive Fictions
10 - Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading
11 - “A-Killing Their Children with Safety”: Maternal Identity and Transgression in Swift and Defoe
12 - Ruined Women and Illegitimate Daughters: Revolution and Female Sexuality
About the Editor and Contributors
Index