Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity

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.

• • Author: L. Scrivner
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Sep 24, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 267 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137268735
• • ISBN-13: 9781137268730