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.