Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out.
- Author / Editor
- Booth, Naomi.
Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out.
- Published
- Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- x, 232 pp.; 4 illus.
- Description
- Surveys literary representations of swooning from late medieval works to modern ones, assessing how the motif is "inflected and re-inflected as ideas of the body, gender, race, sexuality and sickness shift through time." After an introductory essay on theorizations of swooning and fainting, Chapter 1, "Heart-Stopped Transformations: Swooning in Late Medieval Literature," includes discussion of TC, in which swoons signify danger and transformation, with contrasts between Troilus's and Criseyde's swoons reflecting their individual vulnerabilities that comprise an anatomy of erotic love.
- Alternative Title
- Heart-Stopped Transformations: Swooning in Late Medieval Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde