Description: "Vital Strife is about the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and the early modern ethics of care in works of 16th and 17th-century drama, poetry, and philosophy."--
Review Quotes:
Parris's book is well worth reading[.] An ofen brilliant and always stimulating meditation on Renaissance and early modern conceptions of sleep and wakefulness, it is a major and innovative contribution to literary history and historical ethics.
-- "The Review of English Studies"