"That venerable and princely custom of long-lying abed" sleep and civility in seventeenth- and 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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2020, 2020
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| Collection: | National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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- Includes bibliographical references