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Vital strife : sleep, insomnia, and the early modern ethics of care /

"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."--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parris, Benjamin, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 15th and 16th centuries > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 17th century > History and criticism.
Sleep in literature.
Sleep > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
1400-1699
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.