Sleep Fictions

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Acknowledgements Introduction From Mystery to Medicine: Diagnosing Sleep in American Literature

1. “The Most Restless of Mortals”: Patronage and Somnambulism in Henry James’s Roderick Hudson
2. “A Monst’us Pow’ful Sleeper”: Resisting the Master Clock in Charles Chesnutt’s “Uncle Julius” Tales
3. “A Great Blaze of Electric Light”: Illuminating Sleeplessness in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth

4. “Rest and Power”: The Social Currency of Sleep in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Forerunner Conclusion Notes

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