Sleep in Early Modern England
Autor Sasha Handleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2016
A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society
Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and supernatural agents was challenged by new medical thinking about sleep’s relationship to the nervous system. This breakthrough coincided with radical changes shaping everything from sleeping hours to bedchambers. Handley’s illuminating work documents a major evolution in our conscious understanding of the unconscious.
Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and supernatural agents was challenged by new medical thinking about sleep’s relationship to the nervous system. This breakthrough coincided with radical changes shaping everything from sleeping hours to bedchambers. Handley’s illuminating work documents a major evolution in our conscious understanding of the unconscious.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300220391
ISBN-10: 0300220391
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 25 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300220391
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 25 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Notă biografică
Sasha Handley is senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester. Her previous book is Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England. She lives in Manchester, UK.
Recenzii
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON PRIZE AND LONGMAN HISTORY TODAY AWARD 2017, AND WINNER OF THE 2017 SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY PRIZE.
“A book of sheer originality and novelty… Handley tackles an almost completely neglected subject with disarming modesty”—Judges, Wolfson History Prize
“A welcome contribution that fills a gap in the literature . . . a well-presented and authoritative review of the subject that is laced with fascinating titbits of information embedded in a scholarly monograph.”—John M.T. Ford, British Society of Medical Historians Review
“An admirable addition to the existing corpus.”— Mark Jones, Albion, March 2017
“This book contains several increasingly important strands of historical thought: the histories of material objects, the body, the emotions and the senses. Handley’s materially and emotionally rich account of early modern sleep shows that the early modern bedchamber was a space where these histories intertwined.”—John Gallagher, London Review of Books