Sleep and the Novel Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.01.2019
Abbildungen
VII, 228 p.
Verlag
SpringerSeitenzahl
228
Maße (L/B/H)
21/14.8/1.3 cm
Gewicht
311 g
Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-030-09183-5
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 Austen, the politicization of sleep in Dickens, the queering of sleep in Goncharov, the aestheticization of sleep in Proust, and the medicalization of sleep in contemporary fiction, it examines the ways in which novelists envision the figure of the sleeper, the meanings they discover in human sleep, and the values they attach to it. It argues that literary fiction harbours, on its margins, a “sleeping partner”, one that we can nickname the
Schlafroman
or “sleep-novel”, whose quiet absorption in the wordlessness and passivity of human slumber subtly complicates the imperatives of self-awareness and purposive action that traditionally govern the novel.
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