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Bodily Rhythms and the Cultural Clock Bodily Rhythms and the Cultural Clock
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Sleeplessness in US Literature at the Turn of the Century Sleeplessness in US Literature at the Turn of the Century
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Sleep via Class, Race, and Gender Sleep via Class, Race, and Gender
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Organization Organization
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Text Visualizations and Digital Companion Text Visualizations and Digital Companion
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Introduction From Mystery to Medicine: Diagnosing Sleep in American Literature
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Published:November 2023
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Abstract
The introduction argues that Progressive-Era literature singularly defines US sleep culture, revealing how regulations of rest circumscribed social agency, particularly for characters already marginalized by gender, race, class, and sexuality. Engaging with medical, historical, literary, and cultural studies, this chapter traces America’s paradoxical mastery of sleep, redefining the basic, quotidian need as a hindrance to US proficiency. The introduction closes with a description of the book’s digital companion: a website and text visualization tool that provides an interdisciplinary, deconstructed analysis of the book’s primary texts. Using Scalar’s tag visualization tool, the project thematizes embedded annotations through a tagging system defined by sleep-related subtopics. This digital humanities approach allows visitors to explore the texts in whatever way their interests direct them.
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