{"product_id":"swoon-naomi-booth-9781526101181","title":"Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eSwoon 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Naomi Booth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526101181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526101181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d","brand":"Naomi Booth","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994591756543,"sku":"9781526101181","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b646b15-39d3-446f-8af8-f09438f86a1e.jpg?v=1683331064","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/swoon-naomi-booth-9781526101181","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}