Becoming Insomniac

How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-44359-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3406 g

A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scrivner, L.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologomenon 1. A Modern Insomnia 2. The Freeing of the Will 3. The Narrowing of the Attention 4. In Vicious Circles: The Physiologies of Exhaustion 5. Mental Hyperactivity and the Hematologies of Sleep 6. Psychologorrhea 7. Slumber and Self Subdivided 8. Prostheses and Antitheses 9. Insomniac Modernism 10. Volitional Regress and Egress

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Scrivner has taught English and the Humanities at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA; The University of London, Birkbeck, UK; and at Bo?aziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. He currently resides in Colombia with his wife and three sons.