Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature: Emotions, Ethics, Dreams.
- Author / Editor
- Leitch, Megan G.
Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature: Emotions, Ethics, Dreams.
- Published
- Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- 284 pp.
- Series
- Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
- Description
- Surveys medical and literary backgrounds and representations of sleep, naps, dreams, nightmares, and sleep-scapes in various Middle English genres and works. Chapter 4, "The Hermeneutics of Sleep in Chaucer's Dream Poems," focuses on dreams, melancholy, ethics, emotions, and consolation in BD, and more briefly assesses related concerns in PF, LGWP, and NPT, arguing that Chaucer deploys an original hermeneutics of sleep and dreaming and "reflects on the nature of poetry and poetic inheritance"
- Alternative Title
- The Hermeneutics of Sleep in Chaucer's Dream Poems
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
Nun's Priest and His Tale