Fagged out: Overwork and sleeplessness in Victorian professional life
The paper sets current concerns with insomnia in our 24/7 society in the context of nineteenth-century anxieties about the pressures of overwork and sleeplessness in professional culture. Following a case study of a sleepless prime minister, William Gladstone, it explores the early history of sleep...
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| Language: | English |
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Royal Society
2020
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