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Forming sleep : representing consciousness in the English Renaissance / edited by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon

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University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
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©2020
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1 online resource (pages cm.).
Additional Creators
Simpson-Younger, Nancy L. (Nancy Lynne), 1984- and Simon, Margaret, 1975-
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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.
Summary
"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"--
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9780271086545 (electronic bk.)
0271086548 (electronic bk.)
9780271086569 (electronic bk.)
0271086564 (electronic bk.)
9780271086118
0271086114
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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