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Author:

Parris, Benjamin, 1977- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xi, 288 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Literature, Modern--15th and 16th centuries--History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--17th century--History and criticism.
Sleep in literature.
Sleep--Philosophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 271-283) and index.

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.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1501764500
9781501764509

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1267752633

LCCN:

2022003211

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)