{"product_id":"awful-parenthesis-1","title":"Awful Parenthesis","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether the rapt trances of Romanticism or the corpse-like figures that confounded Victorian science and religion, nineteenth-century depictions of bodies in suspended animation are read as manifestations of broader concerns about the unknowable in Anne C. McCarthy’s \u003ci\u003eAwful Parenthesis\u003c\/i\u003e. Examining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, McCarthy shares important insights into the nineteenth-century fascination with the sublime. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAttentive to differences between \"Romantic\" and \"Victorian\" articulations of suspension, \u003ci\u003eAwful Parenthesis\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical alternative to assumptions about periodization. While investigating various conceptualizations of suspension, including the suspension of disbelief, suspended animation, trance, paralysis, pause, and dilatation, McCarthy provides historically-aware close readings of nineteenth-century poems in conversation with prose genres that include devotional works, philosophy, travel writing, and periodical fiction. \u003ci\u003eAwful Parenthesis\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the cultural obsession with the aesthetics of suspension as a response to an expanding, incoherent world in crisis, one where the audience is both active participant and passive onlooker. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Anne C. McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575135207606,"sku":"9781487516284","price":57.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487516284.jpg?v=1730228696","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/awful-parenthesis-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}