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Dream and Literary Creation in Womens Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women's writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shell...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Anthem nineteenth-century series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter Int-null
- Introduction
- Part I WOMEN AND DREAMS: AN ONEIRIC FEMININE LITERARY TRADITION
- Chapter 1 'Delicate Females' and Psychedelic Creation in the Scientific Experiments of Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy
- Body and Air: 'a very beautiful pneumatic machinery'
- Science and Aesthetic Pleasure: An Impossible Encounter?
- 'The fair fugitive' and the 'temporary maniac': The Sexual and Creative Power of the Female Trance
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 2 Treading in Camilla's footsteps?
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 3 The Passing on of Dreams
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Part II DREAMS, ALTERITY AND THE DIVINE
- Chapter 4 '[A]?s somtimes Poets dream'
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 5 THE THEOLOGY OF RADCLIFFE'S DREAMS
- Works Cited
- Chapter 6 PROVIDENTIAL THINKING
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Part III DREAMING (OF) MONSTERS
- Chapter 7 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Approach to Dreams and Dreaming in her Fictional Works Frankenstein, Valperga, Matilda and 'The Dream'
- The Philosophical, Medical and Literary Hypotexts of Dreams in Frankenstein and Valperga
- Exploring the Female Mind: Dreams in Matilda, Valperga and 'The Dream'
- Conclusion: 'Life is a Dream'
- Dream as Metaphor in Mary Shelley
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 8 THE MONSTER OF THEIR DREAMS
- Symptoms of Sleep Paralysis in Frankenstein and Mary Shelley's 'Introduction'
- The Monster of Her Dreams?
- Sleep Paralysis in Folklore and Art
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 9 HENRY FUSELI'S NIGHTMARE(S) IN MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (1818)
- Mary Shelley's Nightmares in the 1831 'Introduction'
- The 1831 'Introduction' and Literary Bedside Scenes
- Fuseli's Nightmare(s) in Volume I, Chapter 4
- When the Nightmare Comes True (Volume III)
- The Emblematic Scenes of Elizabeth's Death
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Part IV BEYOND FRANKENSTEIN
- Chapter 10 DREAMING UP MONSTERS
- Historicizing the Dream: From Revelation to Disorder
- Suggesting the Supernatural: The Reality of the Dream in Wuthering Heights
- Disrupting Gothic Expectations: Distinctive Approaches to the Tandem Dream Sequence
- Building on the Tandem Dream Sequence: The Nightmare of Reality in Frankenstein
- Awakening from a Trance: The Realization of a Dream in Frankenstein
- Turning the Nightmare Inward: The Extremes of Dream Science in Frankenstein
- The Affective Potential of Dreams in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 11 'AND THIS SHALL BE MY DREAM TONIGHT'
- The Poems
- Dreaming, Transcendence, and the Imagination
- Note
- Works Cited
- Chapter 12 DREAMS IN JANE EYRE
- The Sister Dream
- The Child Dream
- Dreams of Mourning
- Notes
- Works Cited
- POSTSCRIPT