Sleep and the Novel

Michael Greaney is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Conrad, Language and Narrative (2001) and Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory (2006). He has published widely on sleep studies, and is one of the co-founders of the website 'Sleep Cultures', an online hub for humanities scholars working in the field of sleep studies.

1. Introduction.- 2. "The Yawns of Lady Bertram": Sleep, Subjectivity and Sociability in Jane Austen.- 3. "Snoring for the Million": Dickens the Sleep-watcher.- 4. From Bildungsroman to Schlafroman: Goncharov's Oblomov.- 5. Proust and the Sleep of Others.- 6. "Observed, Measured, Contained": Contemporary Fiction and the Science of Sleep.- 7. Conclusion: "A World Without a Lullaby"?.

"With Sleep and the Novel, Michael Greaney makes a valuable contribution to an under-researched area of the novel and makes a good case for ways in which attention to sleep-and expressly not dream sleep-might, despite its marginal position in narrative, have wider-ranging effects on our reading. ... Fluent, attentive, and engaging, this is a book that deserves to be read." (Stephen Thomson, The Review of English Studies, September, 2018)

“With Sleep and the Novel, Michael Greaney makes a valuable contribution to an under-researched area of the novel and makes a good case for ways in which attention to sleep—and expressly not dream sleep—might, despite its marginal position in narrative, have wider-ranging effects on our reading. … Fluent, attentive, and engaging, this is a book that deserves to be read.” (Stephen Thomson, The Review of English Studies, September, 2018)