Forming Sleep : Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance.

COVER front -- Series Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Forming Sleep -- Notes -- Part 1: Sleep States and Subjectivity in Early Modern Lyric -- Chapter 1: Thinking Sleep in the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Rest and Rhyme in Thomas Campion's Poetry -- Notes -- Chapter 3: "Still in Thought with Thee I Go": Epistemology and Consciousness in the Sidney Psalms -- Notes -- Part 2: Sleep, Ethics, and Embodied Form in Early Modern Drama -- Chapter 4: Making the Moor: Torture, Sleep Deprivation, and Race in Othello -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Sleep, Vulnerability, and Self-Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Notes -- Chapter 6: "The Heaviness of Sleep": Monarchical Exhaustion in King Lear -- Notes -- Part 3: Sleep and Personhood in the Early Modern Verse Epic and Prose Treatise -- Chapter 7: Life and Labor in the House of Care: Spenserian Ethics and the Aesthetics of Insomnia -- Notes -- Chapter 8: "Sweet Moistning Sleepe": Perturbations of the Mind and Rest for the Bodyin Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy -- Notes -- Chapter 9: The Physiology of Free Will: Faculty Psychology and the Structure of the Miltonic Mind -- Notes -- Afterword: Beyond the Lost World: Early Modern Sleep Scenarios -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- index.

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