Chapter 8 "That venerable and princely custom of long-lying abed" : Sleep and civility in seventeenthand eighteenth-century urban society
Elizabeth Hunter considers sleep in terms of the relationship between English medical ideas about healthy lifestyle and the social context in which idleness and the husbanding of time had powerful connotations in terms of class, gender and morality. She starts with Dekker's The Gull's Horn...
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Taylor & Francis
2020
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