Sleep fictions: rest and its deprivations in progressive-era literature
Auteur :
Huber, Hannah L.
Éditeur :
University of Illinois Press
ISBN :
9780252045400
Date de publication :
21 nov. 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
454 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued sleep. Huber analyzes the works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to examine the literary response to the period’s obsession with wakefulness.