Dreams and Modernity - Lusty, Natalya; Groth, Helen
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This groundbreaking study is a history of the dream as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture from the mid-nineteenth century, to the late twentieth century. Drawing on a complex and diverse archive, including popular dream books, lectures, novels, poems, visual media, diaries, letters, scholarly texts, and newspaper and journal articles, Dreams and Modernity analyses how the explosion of interest in dreams informed the psychic, imaginative and intimate life of the modern subject. The unauthorized nature of dream material and its formulation as a "history from below" makes it singularly illuminating for a broader cultural history of this period.…mehr

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This groundbreaking study is a history of the dream as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture from the mid-nineteenth century, to the late twentieth century. Drawing on a complex and diverse archive, including popular dream books, lectures, novels, poems, visual media, diaries, letters, scholarly texts, and newspaper and journal articles, Dreams and Modernity analyses how the explosion of interest in dreams informed the psychic, imaginative and intimate life of the modern subject. The unauthorized nature of dream material and its formulation as a "history from below" makes it singularly illuminating for a broader cultural history of this period.
Autorenporträt
Helen Groth is an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (OUP, 2003) and Moving Images. Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices (EUP, 2013). She has also written a wide range of articles on photography, Victorian visual technologies, anachronism, noise and has recently co-edited Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind (Continuum, 2013). Natalya Lusty is Associate Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Ashgate, 2007) and a recently co-edited collection of essays, Modernism and Masculinity: Literary and Cultural Transformations (CUP, 2013). Her research examines various movements and cultures of modernity, including feminism, psychoanalysis, the avant-garde, fashion and everyday life.