Sleep and the Novel : Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 237271485
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave
- ISBN
- 9783319752525
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 88000-word monograph is the first full-length critical study of representations of sleep in literary fiction. It is historically wide-ranging, covering the novelistic history of sleep from the nineteenth century to the present day, and geographically adventurous, engaging with writings from England (Austen, Dickens), France (Proust), Russia (Goncharov) and the USA (David Foster Wallace and others). The discussion is informed by recent work on the history, anthropology and sociology of sleep, and the work as a whole represents a substantial contribution to the ongoing rediscovery of sleep as an object of interest for scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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