Dream and Literary Creation in Women's Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Herausgeber: Hervouet, Isabelle; Rouhette, Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Shelley's Frankenstein.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9781785277528
• ISBN-10: 1785277529
• Artikelnr.: 61434702

Autorenporträt

Isabelle Hervouet is Senior Lecturer in British literature at Université Clermont-Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand. Her research focuses on the Gothic novel in Britain, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. Anne Rouhette is Senior Lecturer in British literature at Université Clermont-Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand. Her research focuses on women's writings in Britain (18th-19th centuries).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 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, Kimberley Page-Jones; Chapter 2. Treading in
Camilla's Footsteps?: Oneiric Experience and Women's Voices in Julia De
Vienne (by a Lady, 1811) and Tales of Fancy (Sarah Harriet Burney, 1816-
20), Lucy- Anne Katgely; Chapter 3. The Passing on of Dreams: Mary
Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and the Diana Figure, Audrey Souchet; PART II.
DREAMS, ALTERITY AND THE DIVINE; Chapter 4. '[A]s Sometimes Poets Dream':
Liminality and the Female Writer in the Poetry of Anne Finch, Debapriya
Basu; Chapter 5. The Theology of Radcliff e's Dreams, Holly Hirst; Chapter
6. Providential Thinking: Dreams and the Rhetoric of Romance in The Old
English Baron and The Romance of the Forest, Victor Sage; PART III.
DREAMING (OF) MONSTERS: DREAMS, CREATIVITY AND AESTHETICS IN MARY SHELLEY'S
FICTION; Chapter 7. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Approach to Dreams and
Dreaming in Her Fictional Works Frankenstein, Valperga, Matilda and 'The
Dream', Antonella Braida-Laplace; Chapter 8. The Monster of Their Dreams:
The Night- Mare and Sleep Disorders in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)
and 'Introduction' (1831), Mathilde Giret; Chapter 9. Henry Fuseli's
Nightmare(s) in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Fabien Desset; PART IV.
BEYOND FRANKENSTEIN; Chapter 10. Dreaming Up Monsters: The Affective
Intensity of Dreams, Nightmares and Delirium in Frankenstein and Wuthering
Heights, Anne Nagel; Chapter 11. 'And This Shall Be My Dream Tonight':
Dream as Narrative in Wuthering Heights, Tricia Ayrton; Chapter 12. Dreams
in Jane Eyre, Isabelle Hervouet; Postscript: A Jigsaw of Dreams, Margaret
Anne Doody; Index.