Reading the Early Modern Dream

The Terrors of the Night
Herausgeber: Wiseman, Sue; O'Callaghan, Michelle; Hodgkin, Katharine

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the meanings early modern people found in dreams, this compelling collection of essays looks at a range of topics, including prophetic dreams, ghosts in political writing and the dreams of animals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780415512428
• ISBN-10: 0415512425
• Artikelnr.: 36143595

Autorenporträt

Katharine Hodgkin teaches in the School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London. Michelle O'Callaghan teaches in the School of English and American Literature, University of Reading. S. J. Wiseman teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Reading the Early Modern Dream
S.J. Wiseman
2. Dreaming, Motion, Meaning: Oneiric Transport in Seventeenth-
Europe
Mary Baine Campbell
3. 'Onely Proper Unto Man': Dreaming and Being Human
Erica Fudge
4. Dream-Visions of Elizabeth I
Helen Hackett
5. Dreams, Prophecies and Politics: John Dee and the Elizabethan
Court, 1575-85
Stephen Clucas
6. Dreaming the Dead: Ghosts and History in the early Seventeenth-
Century
Michelle O'Callaghan
7. 'Imaginarie in Manner, Reall in Matter': Rachel Speght's Dreame
and the Female Scholar-Poet
Kate Lilley
8. Dreaming Meanings: Some Early Modern Dream Thoughts
Katharine Hodgkin
9. 'I Saw No Angel': Civil War Dreams and the History of Dreaming
S.J. Wiseman
Contributors