{"product_id":"9781487502911","title":"Awful Parenthesis: Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry","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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028061700336,"sku":"9781487502911","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487502911_p0.jpg?v=1763635726","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487502911","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}