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Vital Strife : Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care
Title
Vital Strife : Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care / Benjamin Parris.
ISBN
9781501764523
9781501764516
9781501764509
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (300 pages).
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Summary
"Vital Strife is about the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and the early modern ethics of care in works of 16th and 17th-century drama, poetry, and philosophy."-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Heavy with care: Sleep and ethical life from ancient Greece to early modern England
Hercules asleep: Stoic oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens
"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
"Watching to banish care": sleep and insomnia in The Faerie Queene
"Inhabit lax": Insomniac vare and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise Lost
Coda: A vital rationality.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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