Booth Swoon

A poetics of passing out
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0125-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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. It offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Booth, Naomi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Heart-stopped transformations: Swooning in late Medieval literature
2 Bodily proofs: Shakespearean swoons and unreadable body-texts
3 Feeling too much: The swoon and the (in)sensible woman
4 Dead born: Shadow resurrections and artistic transformation
5 Vampiric swoons and other dark ecologies
6 Lovesick, lesbian swoons and the romantic art of sinking
Passing out
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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