Vital Strife : Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
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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9781501764523
Literature, Modern-15th and 16th centuries-History and criticism.