Vital Strife : Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care /

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"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."--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parris, Benjamin, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sleep in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Sommeil > Philosophie.
Sommeil dans la litterature.
Litterature > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > 15e et 16e siecles > Histoire et critique.
Sleep > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 17th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 15th and 16th centuries > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 vare and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise Lost
  • Coda: A vital rationality.

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