Format:
237 pages
ISBN:
9780271086118
Series Statement:
Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700
Content:
Introduction : forming sleep / Margaret Simon and Nancy Simpson-Younger -- Thinking sleep in the Renaissance sonnet sequence / Giulio J. Pertile -- Rest and rhyme in Thomas Campion's poetry / Margaret Simon -- "Still in thought with thee I go" : epistemology and consciousness in the Sidney psalms / Nancy Simpson-Younger -- Making the moor : torture, sleep deprivation, and race in Othello / Timothy A. Turner -- Sleep, vulnerability, and self-knowledge in A midsummer night's dream / Jennifer Lewin -- "The heaviness of sleep" : monarchical exhaustion in King Lear / Brian Chalk -- Life and labor in the house of care : Spenserian ethics and the aesthetics of insomnia / Benjamin Parris -- "Sweet moistning sleepe" : perturbations of the mind and rest for the body in Robert Burton's Anatomy of melancholy / Cassie M. Miura -- The physiology of free will : faculty psychology and the structure of the Miltonic mind / N. Amos Rothschild -- Afterword : beyond the lost world; eary modern sleep scenarios / Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.
Content:
"A collection of essays exploring how biocultural and literary dynamics acted together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Essays envision sleep states as a means of defining the human, both literally and metaphorically"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Forming sleep University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780271086569
Language:
English
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Schlaf
;
Bewusstsein
;
Philosophie
;
Selbsterziehung
;
Renaissance
;
Geschichte 1580-1670
;
Aufsatzsammlung
