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Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present pp 23–47Cite as

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Taboo and Transgression: A Socio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective

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Especially with a view to the two fundamental aspects of human existence, sexuality and death, the following socio-historical introduction will focus on the main religious, political, moral, and social discourses that have regulated the silencing or breaking of taboos since the sixteenth century, that is, since the invention of printing and Henry VIII’s institutionalization of an independent Church of England.

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Böker, U. (2010). Taboo and Transgression: A Socio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective. In: Horlacher, S., Glomb, S., Heiler, L. (eds) Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230105997_2

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