For a long time the hippest word in art criticism was “transgressive”. One of the things that defined a work as modern was the breaking of taboos. And there were so many taboos to break: depictions of ...

The Gothic Wanderer: From Transgression to Redemption by Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D., provides the reader with an important balance of literary history, scholarly analysis, and contemporary relevance, ...

Taking as its point of departure the problematic distinction between illness as 'deviance' and health as 'conformity', this article ventures an alternative notion of health which oscillates ...