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Sleep Works : Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Klinger, Sebastian P.
Series:
Hopkins studies in modernism.
Hopkins Studies in Modernism Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Literature and science--History--20th century.
Literature and science.
Sleep in literature.
Genre:
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) : illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025.
Summary:
An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.
Contents:
Introduction: At the borders of consciousness
The science of sleep
White nights, brown pills
Dangerously glamorous
Proust's sleep experiments
Undreaming Kafka
Rilke and rest.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Other Format:
Print version: Klinger, Sebastian P. Sleep Works
ISBN:
9781421450810
OCLC:
1449627237

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