| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm.) |
| Series |
Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700 |
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Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700.
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| Contents |
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" : epsitemology 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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Consciousness in literature.
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Sleep in literature.
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Consciousness in literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Sleep in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Simpson-Younger, Nancy L. (Nancy Lynne), 1984- editor.
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Simon, Margaret, 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780271086545 |
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0271086548 |
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9780271086569 |
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0271086564 |
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