Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature: Emotions, Ethics, Dreams Leitch Megan
Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature: Emotions, Ethics, Dreams Leitch Megan Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the…
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Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature: Emotions, Ethics, Dreams Leitch Megan
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. These concerns about sleep, and the intersecting medical and moral discourses with which they engage, have been overlooked by studies more interested in what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (sex).
This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications for the medieval English cultural imagination. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries and is both subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance,
Middle English Literature
Literature in English
English Literature in Context
English Literature in Context