Download or read book Becoming Insomniac written by L. Scrivner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures.