Forming Sleep Stephen Crippen still standing on the sidelines

still standing on the sidelines

or adverbial is placed before the verb

where to get assistance

Far from offering a counsel of despair

suggesting profound implications for growing minority groups in the United States

Forming Sleep Stephen Crippen still standing on the sidelinesForming Sleep asks how biocultural and literary dynamics act together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Engaging with poetry, drama, and prose largely written in English between 1580 and 1670, the essays in this collection highlight period discussions about how seemingly insentient states might actually enable self formation. Looking at literary representations of sleep through formalism, biopolitics, Marxist theory,