"Sleeping at Walden Pond: Thoreau, Abnormal Temporality, and the Modern Body"
A talk by Benjamin Reiss of the Emory University English Department
Event Details
Date
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time
4 p.m.
Location
7191 Helen C. White Hall
Description
This talk explores how sleep came to be a problem in need of micro-management, medical attention, and pervasive worry. It braids together literary, medical, religious, and social history from the Enlightenment to the present.
Cost
Free
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