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Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature (Emotions, ethics, dreams)
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Product Details
Author:
Megan G. Leitch
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
296
Publisher:
Manchester University Press (March 21, 2023)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781526171597
ISBN-10:
1526171597
Dimensions:
5.43" x 8.5" x 0.61"
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Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$36.95
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Series:
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Case Pack:
20
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$28.45
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Weight:
12oz
Imprint:
Manchester University Press
Overview
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. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.








