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Charles Dickens: Observer of Sleep and Its Disorders

Author(s) -

J. E. Cosnett

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.1093/sleep/15.3.264

Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , psychology , psychoanalysis , reflexive pronoun , sleep (system call) , literature , art , artificial intelligence , computer science , operating system

Using the characters of his novels as the canvas, Charles Dickens painted vivid word pictures of a variety of manifestations of sleep and its disorders. These were presumably based on the author's own experiences and those of family and friends. Dickens was, himself, a self-confessed episodic insomniac. For this he devised the unique therapy of long night walks. This article illustrates, by a few selected quotations, this hitherto unpublicized aspect of the author's life and works.

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