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

• Main Author: Greaney, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Fiction.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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"?.