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Vital strife : sleep, insomnia, and the early modern ethics of care /

"Vital Strife is about the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and the early modern ethics of care in works of 16th and 17th-century drama, poetry, and philosophy."--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parris, Benjamin, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Heavy with care : sleep and ethical life from ancient Greece to early modern England
  • Hercules asleep : stoic oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens
  • "The body is with the king, but the king Is not with the body" : sovereign sleep in the tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear
  • "Watching to banish care" : sleep and insomnia in The faerie queene
  • "Inhabit lax" : insomniac care and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise lost
  • Coda: A vital rationality.