Forming sleep : representing consciousness in the English Renaissance /
"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"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.