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Vital Strife : Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501764523
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vital StrifeDDC classification:
  • 809.933561
LOC classification:
  • PN731
Online resources:
Contents:
Vital Strife -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Vital Strife -- 1. Heavy with Care: Sleep and Ethical Life from Ancient Greece to Early Modern England -- 2. Hercules Asleep: Stoic Oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens -- 3. "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 -- 4. "Watching to Banish Care": Sleep and Insomnia in The Faerie Queene -- 5. "Inhabit Lax": Insomniac Care and the Vital Virtue of Sleep in Paradise Lost -- Coda: A Vital Rationality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
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Vital Strife -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Vital Strife -- 1. Heavy with Care: Sleep and Ethical Life from Ancient Greece to Early Modern England -- 2. Hercules Asleep: Stoic Oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens -- 3. "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 -- 4. "Watching to Banish Care": Sleep and Insomnia in The Faerie Queene -- 5. "Inhabit Lax": Insomniac Care and the Vital Virtue of Sleep in Paradise Lost -- Coda: A Vital Rationality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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