In a new chapter on sleep and sleeplessness in Ford Madox Ford and Siegfried Sassoon, Sarah Kingston offers some extremely suggestive observations on sleep, war and the disciplined body: "[I]n wartime especially, sleep is not a matter of individual comfort, but of national import. As such, sleep becomes not only a behaviour essential to productivity, but also one that is subject to discipline, therefore within the realm of disciplinary mechanisms. In essence, control over sleep becomes a point of threshold between public and private behaviour, and, as [Parade's End and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer] show, a point of resistance to the subjection of the body for public interest." Entitled "The Work of Sleep: Insomnia and Discipline in Ford and Sassoon," Kingston's chapter is part of War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End", Modernism, and Psychology, eds Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).
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