Sleep and the Novel Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present /

Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering the narrativization of sleep in...

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1. Verfasser: Greaney, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schlagworte:
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern-21st century.
Fiction.
ISBN:9783319752532
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. "The Yawns of Lady Bertram": Sleep, Subjectivity and Sociability in Jane Austen
  • 3. "Snoring for the Million": Dickens the Sleep-watcher
  • 4. From Bildungsroman to Schlafroman: Goncharov's Oblomov
  • 5. Proust and the Sleep of Others
  • 6. "Observed, Measured, Contained": Contemporary Fiction and the Science of Sleep
  • 7. Conclusion: "A World Without a Lullaby"?.

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