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Becoming Insomniac

How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity
By:L. Scrivner
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137268730
eText ISBN:9781137268747
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures.