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2. Rest and Rhyme in Thomas Campion’s Poetry
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Forming Sleep 1
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Part I: Sleep States and Subjectivity in Early Modern Lyric
- 1. Thinking Sleep in the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence 21
- 2. Rest and Rhyme in Thomas Campion’s Poetry 51
- 3. “Still in Thought with Thee I Go”: Epistemology and Consciousness in the Sidney Psalms 69
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Part II: Sleep, Ethics, and Embodied Form in Early Modern Drama
- 4. Making the Moor: Torture, Sleep Deprivation, and Race in Othello 89
- 5. Sleep, Vulnerability, and Self-Knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 109
- 6. “The Heaviness of Sleep”: Monarchical Exhaustion in King Lear 127
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Part III: Sleep and Personhood in the Early Modern Verse Epic and Prose Treatise
- 7. Life and Labor in the House of Care: Spenserian Ethics and the Aesthetics of Insomnia 149
- 8. “Sweet Moistning Sleepe”: Perturbations of the Mind and Rest for the Body in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy 167
- 9. The Physiology of Free Will: Faculty Psychology and the Structure of the Miltonic Mind 187
- Afterword: Beyond the Lost World; Early Modern Sleep Scenarios 209
- Bibliography 217
- List of Contributors 231
- Index 233
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Forming Sleep 1
-
Part I: Sleep States and Subjectivity in Early Modern Lyric
- 1. Thinking Sleep in the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence 21
- 2. Rest and Rhyme in Thomas Campion’s Poetry 51
- 3. “Still in Thought with Thee I Go”: Epistemology and Consciousness in the Sidney Psalms 69
-
Part II: Sleep, Ethics, and Embodied Form in Early Modern Drama
- 4. Making the Moor: Torture, Sleep Deprivation, and Race in Othello 89
- 5. Sleep, Vulnerability, and Self-Knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 109
- 6. “The Heaviness of Sleep”: Monarchical Exhaustion in King Lear 127
-
Part III: Sleep and Personhood in the Early Modern Verse Epic and Prose Treatise
- 7. Life and Labor in the House of Care: Spenserian Ethics and the Aesthetics of Insomnia 149
- 8. “Sweet Moistning Sleepe”: Perturbations of the Mind and Rest for the Body in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy 167
- 9. The Physiology of Free Will: Faculty Psychology and the Structure of the Miltonic Mind 187
- Afterword: Beyond the Lost World; Early Modern Sleep Scenarios 209
- Bibliography 217
- List of Contributors 231
- Index 233