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Swoon : a poetics of passing out /

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. 0This study demonstrates that passing-out has had a pivotal place in English literature. Beginning with an introduction to the sw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Booth, Naomi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Heart-stopped transformations
  • 2 'Fall'n into a pit of ink'
  • 3 Feeling too much
  • 4 'Dead-born'
  • 5 Vampiric swoons and other dark ecologies
  • 6 Lovesick, lesbian swoons and the romantic art of sinking
  • Passing out
  • Select bibliography
  • Index