Sleep Fictions – Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive–Era Literature Huber

Sleep Fictions\nby Hannah L. Huber\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Hannah L. Huber\nTitle: Sleep Fictions\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: general\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 2023\nISBN-13: 9780252045400\nISBN-10: 0252045408\nRRP: \u00A391.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness\n 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 respon.