Forming Sleep - Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Nancy L. Simpson-Younger is Assistant Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University.Margaret Simon is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nancy L Simpson-Younger
• Mitarbeit: Margaret Simon (Herausgeber), Margaret (Assistant Professor of English Simon (Herausgeber), Nancy L. Simpson-Younger (Herausgeber), Nancy L. (Assistant Professor of English Simpson-Younger (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.04.2021
• EAN: 9780271086125
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08612-5
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 428 g
• Illustration: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Serien: Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400-1700; Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism