03147nam 2200637 450 991082320210332120220801045115.01-5017-6452-710.1515/9781501764523(MiAaPQ)EBC6721500(Au-PeEL)EBL6721500(CKB)24242574200041(DE-B1597)612153(DE-B1597)9781501764523(OCoLC)1309028303(MdBmJHUP)musev2_97700(StDuBDS)9781501764523(EXLCZ)992424257420004120230517d2022 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVital strife sleep, insomnia, and the early modern ethics of care /Benjamin Parris[electronic resource]Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2022.1 online resource (301 pages)Cornell scholarship onlineAlso issued in print: 2022.Print version: Parris, Benjamin Vital Strife Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2022 9781501764516 Includes bibliographical references and index.Heavy with care: Sleep and ethical life from ancient Greece to early modern England -- Hercules asleep: Stoic oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens -- "The body is with the king, but the king Is not with the body": Sovereign sleep in the tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear -- "Watching to banish care": sleep and insomnia in The Faerie Queene -- "Inhabit lax": Insomniac vare and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise Lost -- Coda: A vital rationality.The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book - by Jasper Heywood, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish - explore the unconscious motions of corporeal life and the drowsy forms of sentience at the boundaries of human thought and intentionality. The book shows how these writers, although trained under the Renaissance humanist paradigm of attentive care, begin to dissolve the humanist coupling of virtue with vigilance by giving credence to the vital power of sleep.Cornell scholarship online.Literature, Modern15th and 16th centuriesHistory and criticismLiterature, Modern17th centuryHistory and criticismSleep in literatureSleepPhilosophyLiteratureukslcLiterature: history & criticismthemaPhilosophy of mindthemaLiterature, ModernHistory and criticism.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Sleep in literature.SleepPhilosophy.Literature.Literature: history & criticism.Philosophy of mind.809.933561Parris Benjamin1977-1658311StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910823202103321Vital strife4012236UNINA