Sleep Fictions Marc E. Fey author Karen V

author Karen V

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Sleep Fictions Marc E. Fey author Karen VThe literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness 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 response to the period's obsession with wakefulness. As