Sleep Fictions: A Digital CompanionMain MenuAboutProject DescriptionIntroductionNgrams and ThemesTechnical TipsRoderick Hudson by Henry JamesFull TextUncle Julius Tales by Charles Waddell ChesnuttFull TextThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonFull TextSelections from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ForerunnerFull TextThemed AnnotationsLanding Page for ThemesVoyant ToolsReferences & Key TermsLinks to References OnlineHannah Huberd3e4ea8a859f6cdb7403909c52727bbd2c4624eb
This collection includes all notes related to the locality and geography of sleep, from region to immediate surroundings, and draws on "place studies," to explore the relationships between literature and cultural environments.
In the fiction featured here, these places and spaces are wide ranging. For privileged protagonists like Edith Wharton's Lily Bart or Henry James's Roderick Hudson, this might be a bedroom in a hotel, boarding-house, or bourgeois home. For the enslaved characters in Chesnutt's tales, a sleep space varies from a cotton pad in a shack to a hay pile on a barn floor to the clay ground of a riverbank to the mossy grass of a wooded area. For the white heroines of Gilman's Forerunner, this could be sleeping outdoors for restorative purposes, like the balcony treatment described in “Dr. Clair’s Place,” or conversely, for a Black domestic worker, brief rest only to be snatched on the couch of an employer's parlor.
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12020-03-11T19:03:00+00:00Racial Stereotypes of the Civil War Era (americanantiquarian.org)1"The stereotype of the lazy slave is a common element of cartoons on the subject of the Emancipation Proclamation." - americanantiquarian.orgplain2020-03-11T19:03:00+00:00
