Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-era Literature - Couverture souple

Huber, Hannah L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252087526 ISBN 13 : 9780252087523

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2023

Synopsis

The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness

A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued sleep. Hannah L. Huber analyzes the works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to examine the literary response to the period's obsession with wakefulness. As these writers blurred the separation of public and private space, their characters faced exhaustion in a modern world that permeated every moment of their lives with artificial light, traffic noise, and the social pressure to remain active at all hours. The implacable cultural clock and constant stress over physical limitations had an even greater impact on marginalized figures. Huber pays particular attention to how these writers rebutted Americans' confidence in the body's ability to conquer sleep with vivid portraits of the devastating consequences of sleep disruption and deprivation.

The author also provides a website and text visualization tool that offers readers an interdisciplinary, deconstructed analysis of the book's primary texts. The website can be found at: https: //sleepfictions.org/sleep/scalar/index

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hannah L. Huber is an adjunct professor of English and the Digital Technology Leader and Project Administrator for the Center for Southern Studies at The University of the South.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252087526
• ISBN 13: 9780252087523
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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• Personne responsable: non disponible