Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture #: Sleep and its Spaces in Middle English Literature

Emotions, Ethics, Dreams

Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture #: Sleep and its Spaces in Middle English Literature
Megan Leitch
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29 Jun 2021 UK
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9781526151100
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Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. These concerns about sleep, and the intersecting medical and moral discourses with which they engage, have been overlooked by studies more interested in what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (sex). In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries and is both subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications for the medieval English cultural imagination. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.

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Sleep and its Spaces in Middle English Literature: Emotions, Ethics, Dreams

Megan G. Leitch is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781526151100
Published: 29 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 296

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