Research Catalog

Title

Sleep fictions : rest and its deprivations in progressive-era literature / Hannah L. Huber.

Author

Huber, Hannah L., 1989-

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

viii, 185 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm.

Summary

"A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued sleep. Hannah L. Huber analyzes the works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to examine the literary response to the period's obsession with wakefulness. As these writers blurred the separation of public and private space, their characters faced exhaustion in a modern world that permeated every moment of their lives with artificial light, traffic noise, and the social pressure to remain active at all hours. The implacable cultural clock and constant stress over physical limitations had an even greater impact on marginalized figures. Huber pays particular attention to how these writers rebutted Americans' confidence in the body's ability to conquer sleep with vivid portraits of the devastating consequences of sleep disruption and deprivation. The author also provides a website and text visualization tool that offers readers an interdisciplinary, deconstructed analysis of the book's primary texts. The website can be found at: sleepfictions.digital.uic.edu"--

Series Statement

Topics in the digital humanities

Uniform Title

Topics in the digital humanities.

Alternative Title

Rest and its deprivations in progressive-era literature

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Sleep in literature
• Wakefulness in literature
• American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• American fiction
• Sleep in literature
• Wakefulness in literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Literary criticism
• Literary criticism.
• Critiques littéraires.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 23-3672

ISBN

• 9780252045400
• 0252045408
• 9780252087523
• 0252087526

LCCN

2023017175

OCLC

1385404359

Author

Huber, Hannah L., 1989- author.

Title

Sleep fictions : rest and its deprivations in progressive-era literature / Hannah L. Huber.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Topics in the digital humanities

Topics in the digital humanities.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Huber, Hannah L., 1989- Sleep fictions Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023] 9780252055003 (DLC) 2023017176

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3672