Hannah L. Huber is an adjunct professor of English and the Digital Technology Leader and Project Administrator for the Center for Southern Studies at The University of the South.

"An original and valuable contribution to contemporary debates about sleep and the values we attach to it in cultural contexts. There is a rewarding emphasis on the politics of sleep--that is, on the way our sleep lives are shaped, and in some cases distorted, by power relations. Huber's focus on sleep and race is particularly original. This is under-explored territory, and the author's emphasis couldn't be more timely."--Michael Greaney, author of Sleep and the Novel: Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction    From Mystery to Medicine: Diagnosing Sleep in American Literature "The Most Restless of Mortals": Patronage and Somnambulism in Henry James's Roderick Hudson "A Monst'us Pow'ful Sleeper": Resisting the Master Clock in Charles Chesnutt's "Uncle Julius" Tales "A Great Blaze of Electric Light": Illuminating Sleeplessness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth "Rest and Power": The Social Currency of Sleep in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner ConclusionNotes References Index

Hannah L. Huber is an adjunct professor of English and the Digital Technology Leader and Project Administrator for the Center for Southern Studies at The University of the South.

"An original and valuable contribution to contemporary debates about sleep and the values we attach to it in cultural contexts. There is a rewarding emphasis on the politics of sleep--that is, on the way our sleep lives are shaped, and in some cases distorted, by power relations. Huber's focus on sleep and race is particularly original. This is under-explored territory, and the author's emphasis couldn't be more timely."--Michael Greaney, author of Sleep and the Novel: Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction    From Mystery to Medicine: Diagnosing Sleep in American Literature "The Most Restless of Mortals": Patronage and Somnambulism in Henry James's Roderick Hudson "A Monst'us Pow'ful Sleeper": Resisting the Master Clock in Charles Chesnutt's "Uncle Julius" Tales "A Great Blaze of Electric Light": Illuminating Sleeplessness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth "Rest and Power": The Social Currency of Sleep in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner ConclusionNotes References Index

Hannah L. Huber is an adjunct professor of English and the Digital Technology Leader and Project Administrator for the Center for Southern Studies at The University of the South.

"An original and valuable contribution to contemporary debates about sleep and the values we attach to it in cultural contexts. There is a rewarding emphasis on the politics of sleep--that is, on the way our sleep lives are shaped, and in some cases distorted, by power relations. Huber's focus on sleep and race is particularly original. This is under-explored territory, and the author's emphasis couldn't be more timely."--Michael Greaney, author of Sleep and the Novel: Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction    From Mystery to Medicine: Diagnosing Sleep in American Literature "The Most Restless of Mortals": Patronage and Somnambulism in Henry James's Roderick Hudson "A Monst'us Pow'ful Sleeper": Resisting the Master Clock in Charles Chesnutt's "Uncle Julius" Tales "A Great Blaze of Electric Light": Illuminating Sleeplessness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth "Rest and Power": The Social Currency of Sleep in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner ConclusionNotes References Index