Sleep Fictions : Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature / Hannah L. Huber.

Intro
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction From Mystery to Medicine: Diagnosing Sleep in American Literature
Bodily Rhythms and the Cultural Clock
Sleeplessness in US Literature at the Turn of the Century
Sleep via Class, Race, and Gender
Organization
Text Visualizations and Digital Companion
1 "The Most Restless of Mortals": Patronage and Somnambulism in Henry James's Roderick Hudson
Roderick's Restlessness and the "Right to Be … Tired"
The Pendulosity of Genius: From Somnambulist to Sleeping Beauty
Conclusion
2 "A Monst'us Pow'ful Sleeper": Resisting the Master Clock in Charles Chesnutt's "Uncle Julius" Tales
Master Clock Time and the Antecedents of CPT
Sleepy Subversion in the "Uncle Julius" Tales
Nowhere to Sleep in the "Sleepy South"
Conclusion
3 "A Great Blaze of Electric Light": Illuminating Sleeplessness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
Sleeplessness and Cultural Compulsion
Lost Time and Inherited Vulnerability
Biological Impulsion and Self-Extinction
Conclusion
4 "Rest and Power": The Social Currency of Sleep in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner
Gilman's Lessons on Sleep Discipline
Women's Social Awakening
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
Series Page.