Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity

By Lee Scrivner

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134944359X
• ISBN13: 9781349443598
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"