Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature

Emotions, ethics, dreams

By: Megan Leitch, Anke Bernau (Editor), David Matthews (Editor), James Paz (Editor)

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Hardcover | 29 June 2021

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Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. These concerns about sleep, and the intersecting medical and moral discourses with which they engage, have been overlooked by studies more interested in what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (sex). In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries and is both subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses.

This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications for the medieval English cultural imagination. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.

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Leitch's book expands our understanding of a neglected area of medieval mentalit©, enabling new interpretations of key texts. Arthurian scholars will enjoy rethinking the many sleep-related scenes in the romance corpus through the insights presented in this fascinating book.
Carolyne Larrington,St John's College, University of Oxford, Arthurian Literature 2023

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