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Author : Sasha Handley
Release : 2016-09-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 391/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sleep in Early Modern England by : Sasha Handley
Download or read book Sleep in Early Modern England written by Sasha Handley. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Author : Sasha Handley
Release : 2016-08-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 130/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sleep in Early Modern England by : Sasha Handley
Download or read book Sleep in Early Modern England written by Sasha Handley. This book was released on 2016-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and supernatural agents was challenged by new medical thinking about sleep’s relationship to the nervous system. This breakthrough coincided with radical changes shaping everything from sleeping hours to bedchambers. Handley’s illuminating work documents a major evolution in our conscious understanding of the unconscious.
Author : Janine Riviere
Release : 2017-04-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 135/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dreams in Early Modern England by : Janine Riviere
Download or read book Dreams in Early Modern England written by Janine Riviere. This book was released on 2017-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams in Early Modern England shows the variety and complexity of the early modern English discourses on dreams, from the role of dreams and dream theory in framing religious, scientific and philosophical debates, to the way that dreams continued to offer important spiritual and supernatural guidance and lastly how ordinary people exercised agency over their lives through interpreting and using dreams. While today we tend to conceptualize dreams and dreaming as largely psychological, this study shows how early modern people understood dreams and dreaming as many different things, most significantly as political, religious, medical, philosophical and supernatural.
Author : Nancy L. Simpson-Younger
Release : 2020-04-22
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 548/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Forming Sleep by : Nancy L. Simpson-Younger
Download or read book Forming Sleep written by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger. This book was released on 2020-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 seemingly insentient states might actually enable self-formation. Looking at literary representations of sleep through formalism, biopolitics, Marxist theory, trauma theory, and affect theory, this volume envisions sleep states as a means of defining the human condition, both literally and metaphorically. The contributors examine a range of archival sources—including texts in early modern faculty psychology, printed and manuscript medical treatises and physicians’ notes, and printed ephemera on pathological sleep—through the lenses of both classical and contemporary philosophy. Essays apply these frameworks to genres such as drama, secular lyric, prose treatise, epic, and religious verse. Taken together, these essays demonstrate how early modern depictions of sleep shape, and are shaped by, the philosophical, medical, political, and, above all, formal discourses through which they are articulated. With this in mind, the question of form merges considerations of the physical and the poetic with the spiritual and the secular, highlighting the pervasiveness of sleep states as a means by which to reflect on the human condition. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Brian Chalk, Jennifer Lewin, Cassie Miura, Benjamin Parris, Giulio Pertile, N. Amos Rothschild, Garret A. Sullivan Jr., and Timothy A. Turner.
Author : Don Herzog
Release : 2013-04-30
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 780/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Household Politics by : Don Herzog
Download or read book Household Politics written by Don Herzog. This book was released on 2013-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that husbands, wives and servants often struggled over authority in the household.
