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Becoming insomniac = how sleeplessness alarmed modernity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Becoming insomniac/ Lee Scrivner.
Reminder of title:	how sleeplessness alarmed modernity /
Author:	Scrivner, Lee,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	256 p. :5 b&w, halftones. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Insomnia - History. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137268743 (electronic bk.) :

Becoming insomniac = how sleeplessness alarmed modernity /
Scrivner, Lee,1971-

Becoming insomniachow sleeplessness alarmed modernity /[electronic resource] :Lee Scrivner. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 256 p. :5 b&w, halftones.

Electronic book text.

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.

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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.Poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible, imagining that the new, cutting-edge technologies - the telegraph, telephone, the electric light, and the railway - were perpetually encroaching upon the night and the mind to interrupt normal sleep cycles. This book explores the theories surrounding this history of modern insomnia, how the modern world is essentially 'Becoming Insomniac.' It investigates what makes the sleepless condition so special - involving strange paradoxes of attention and volition - and shows how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its phenomena, its causes, and its potential cures.

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

ISBN: 1137268743 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1008746
Insomnia
--History.

LC Class. No.: RC548

Dewey Class. No.: 616.84982

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