How Long to Read Swoon

By Naomi Booth

How Long Does it Take to Read Swoon?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 19 minutes to read Swoon by Naomi Booth

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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, 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.

How long is Swoon?

Swoon by Naomi Booth is 136 pages long, and a total of 34,816 words.

This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Swoon Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Swoon aloud.

What Reading Level is Swoon?

Swoon is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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