{"product_id":"9781526101181","title":"Swoon","description":"Author: Naomi Booth\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526101181\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 10 Dec 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwoon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, cliche 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920423895198,"sku":"ING-9781526101181","price":183.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526101181.jpg?v=1782819740","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526101181","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}