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OverviewSwoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning's rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. This study demonstrates that passing-out has had a pivotal place in English literature. Beginning with an introduction to the swoon as a marker of aesthetic sensitivity, it includes chapters on swooning and generic transformation in Chaucer and Shakespeare; morbid, femininised swoons and excessive affect in romantic, gothic, and modernist works; irony, clich and bathos in the swoons of contemporary romance fiction. This book revisits key texts to show that passing-out has been intimately connected to explorations of emotionality, ecstasy and transformation; to depictions of sickness and dying; and to performances of gender and gendering. Swoon offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Naomi BoothPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9781526171603ISBN 10: 1526171600 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 21 March 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Heart-stopped transformations: Swooning in late Medieval literature 2 Bodily proofs: Shakespearean swoons and unreadable body-texts 3 Feeling too much: The swoon and the (in)sensible woman 4 Dead born: Shadow resurrections and artistic transformation 5 Vampiric swoons and other dark ecologies 6 Lovesick, lesbian swoons and the romantic art of sinking Passing out Index -- .Reviews'In this absorbing study she [Naomi Booth] argues that being out for the count - eyes closed, ears deaf, pulse thready - functions as telling testimony in a range of narratives from Troilus and Criseyde to Fifty Shades of Grey by way of Dracula.' The Times Literary Supplement -- . Author InformationNaomi Booth is Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and English Studies at Durham University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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