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, 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. -- .
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