Becoming Insomniac How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity
Description
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.
Keywords
HistorySocial HistoryScienceMedicalModern
2014Book
Author(s)L. Scrivner
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137268730
LanguageEnglish
