Forming Sleep : : Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance /

Forming Sleep : : Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance / / ed. by Margaret Simon, Nancy L. Simpson-Younger.

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Forming Sleep asks how biocultural and literary dynamics act together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Engaging with poetry, drama, and prose largely written in English between 1580 and 1670, the essays in this collection highlight period discussions about how seeming...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Chalk, Brian,
Lewin, Jennifer,
Miura, Cassie M.,
Parris, Benjamin,
Pertile, Giulio J.,
Rothschild, N. Amos,
Simon, Margaret,
Simpson-Younger, Nancy L.,
Simpson-Younger, Nancy,
Sullivan, Garrett A.,
Turner, Timothy A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Simon, Margaret,
Simpson-Younger, Nancy L.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700 ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.) :; 1 illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Forming Sleep
  • Part I: Sleep States and Subjectivity in Early Modern Lyric
  • 1. Thinking Sleep in the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence
  • 2. Rest and Rhyme in Thomas Campion’s Poetry
  • 3. “Still in Thought with Thee I Go”: Epistemology and Consciousness in the Sidney Psalms
  • Part II: Sleep, Ethics, and Embodied Form in Early Modern Drama
  • 4. Making the Moor: Torture, Sleep Deprivation, and Race in Othello
  • 5. Sleep, Vulnerability, and Self-Knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • 6. “The Heaviness of Sleep”: Monarchical Exhaustion in King Lear
  • Part III: Sleep and Personhood in the Early Modern Verse Epic and Prose Treatise
  • 7. Life and Labor in the House of Care: Spenserian Ethics and the Aesthetics of Insomnia
  • 8. “Sweet Moistning Sleepe”: Perturbations of the Mind and Rest for the Body in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy
  • 9. The Physiology of Free Will: Faculty Psychology and the Structure of the Miltonic Mind
  • Afterword: Beyond the Lost World; Early Modern Sleep Scenarios
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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