Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out

by Naomi Booth

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Swoon 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1526171600

ISBN13:9781526171603

Release Date:March 2023

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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