The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A
turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous
impact of the electric light transformed not only individual
sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued
sleep. Hannah L. Huber analyzes the works of Henry James, Edith
Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to examine
the literary response to the period’s obsession with wakefulness.
As these writers blurred the separation of public and private
space, their characters faced exhaustion in a modern world that
permeated every moment of their lives with artificial light,
traffic noise, and the social pressure to remain active at all
hours. The implacable cultural clock and constant stress over
physical limitations had an even greater impact on marginalized
figures. Huber pays particular attention to how these writers
rebutted Americans’ confidence in the body’s ability to conquer
sleep with vivid portraits of the devastating consequences of sleep
disruption and deprivation. The author also provides a website and
text visualization tool that offers readers an interdisciplinary,
deconstructed analysis of the book’s primary texts. The website
can be found at: https://sleepfictions.org/sleep/scalar/index
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