Sleep Studies

This list is regularly updated and reflects the most recent research being undertaken in the history of sleep!

  • Adler, Shelley R., Sleep Paralysis: Nightmares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection (Rutgers University Press, 2010).
  • Ahlheim, Hannah, ed., Kontrollgewinn – Kontrollverlust: Die Geschichte des Schlafs in der Moderne (Campus Verlag, 2014).
  • Baldwin, Peter C., In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
  • Beaumont, Matthew, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (Verso Books, 2005).
  • Bishop, Andrew, Theosomnia: A Christian Theology of Sleep (Jessica Kingsley, 2018).
  • Bronfen, Elisabeth, Night Passages: Philosophy, Literature, and Film (Columbia University Press, 2013).
  • Brunt, Lodewijk, and Brigitte Steger, eds., Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West: Exploring the Dark Side of Life (Routledge, 2003).
  • ——- eds., Worlds of Sleep (Frank & Timme, 2008).
  • Carson, Anne, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (Penguin, 2006).
  • Crary, Jonathan, 24/7: Terminal Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Verso, 2013).
  • Derickson, Alan, Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
  • Ekirch, A. Roger, At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime (Norton, 2005).
  • Farbman, Herschel, The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness and Twentieth-Century Literature (Fordham University Press, 2009).
  • Glaskin, Katie and Richard Chenhall, eds., Sleep Around the World: Anthropological Perspectives (Palgrave, 2013).
  • Green, Andrew, Alex Westcombe, Ved Varma, eds., Sleep: Multi-Professional Perspectives (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012).
  • Handley, Sasha, Sleep in Early Modern England  (Yale University Press, 2016).
  • Hobson, J. Allan and Helmut Wohl, From Angels to Neurones: Art and the New Science of Dreaming (Mattioli, 2005).
  • Koslofsky, Craig, Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
  • Kroker, Kenton, The Sleep of Others and the Transformations of Sleep Research (University of Toronto Press, 2007).
  • Lockley, Steven W. and Russell G. Foster, Sleep: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012).
  • Max, D.T., The Family that Couldn’t Sleep: Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery (Portobello Books, 2007).
  • Morgan Wortham, Simon, The Poetics of Sleep: From Aristotle to Nancy (Bloomsbury, 2013).
  • Nancy, Jean-Luc, The Fall of Sleep, trans. Charlotte Mandell (Fordham University Press, 2009).
  • Paquot, Thierry, The Art of the Siesta, trans. Ken Hollings (Marion Boyars, 2003).
  • Penzin, Alexei, Rex Exsomnis: Sleep and Subjectivity in Capitalist Modernity (Cantz, 2012).
  • Reiss, Benjamin, Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World  (Basic Books, 2017).
  • Rivière, Janine, Dreams in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2017).
  • Roenneberg, Till, Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired (Harvard University Press, 2012).
  • Rose, Jacqueline, On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World (Chatto & Windus, 2003).
  • Ruvoldt, Maria, The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dreams (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
  • Saint-Amand, Pierre, The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment, trans. Jennifer Curtiss Gage (Princeton University Press, 2011).
  • Schwenger, Peter, At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
  • Scrivner, Lee, Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity (Palgrave, 2014).
  • Sullivan Jr, Garrett A., Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment: Vitality from Spenser to Milton (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
  • Summers-Bremner, Eluned, Insomnia: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2008).
  • Walker, Matthew, Why We Sleep, The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (Penguin, 2017).
  • Wallace, Nathaniel, Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation (Brill/Rodopi, 2016).
  • Williams, Simon J., Sleep and Society: Sociological Ventures into the (Un)known (Routledge, 2005).
  • ——- The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age (Palgrave, 2011).
  • Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J., The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).