Leitch Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature

Emotions, ethics, dreams
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5111-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leitch, Megan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: remarkable sleep
1 Emotions, epistemology and the nature of sleep
2 Ethics, appetite and the dangers of sleep
3 Sleeping spaces and the circumscription of desire
4 The hermeneutics of sleep in Chaucer’s dream poems
Coda: ‘all good letters were layde a slepe’: medieval sleep and early modern heirs
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Megan G. Leitch is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University