Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out

by Naomi Booth

Book Overview

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"