Forming sleep representing consciousness in the English Renaissance / edited by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon.
| Other author | Simpson-Younger, Nancy L. (Nancy Lynne), 1984- |
| Other author | Simon, Margaret, 1975- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020] |
| Description | viii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700 Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700. ^A1399017 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019059745 |
| ISBN | 9780271086118 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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