Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out - Rilegato

Booth, Naomi

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ISBN 10: 1526101181 ISBN 13: 9781526101181

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2021

Riassunto

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 swoons and excessive affect in romantic, gothic, and modernist works; irony, cliché 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Naomi Booth is Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and English Studies at Durham University

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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 for opening up new ways of thinking about the contemporary.

Swoon shows that passing-out has had a pivotal place in English literature. Beginning with the lives of medieval saints and ending with a consideration of recent romance fiction, this study revisits key texts in literary history to reveal that swoons have been intimately connected to explorations of emotionality, ecstasy and transformation; to depictions of sickness and of dying; and to performances of gender and gendering. This literary history of swooning is therefore also a history of crux points for how we imagine the body, and for evolving ideas of physiology, (dis)ability, gender and sexuality. Swoon also argues that passing-out has long been used as a way to figure literary creation and aesthetic sensitivity: from the swoons of medieval mystics to contemporary literary-theoretical depictions of destabilised subjects, literary faints have offered a model of overwhelming, aesthetic, affective response.

This book offers an exciting new way to approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1526101181
• ISBN 13: 9781526101181
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile