Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares ranging across more than two centuries of literature, the visual arts, and twentieth and twenty-first century visual media.
Written by an international group of experts, including leading and lesser-known scholars, it considers its subject in various national, cultural, and socio-historical contexts, engaging with questions of philosophy, morality, rationality, consciousness, and creativity.
Edited by:
Carol Davison
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 601g
ISBN: 9781526160621
ISBN 10: 1526160625
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 20 February 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction – Gothic parasomnias and oneirocriticism: the sleep, dreams, and nightmares of Enlightenment reason and beyond Carol Margaret Davison Part I: Gothic dream and nightmare theory 1 The theology of Gothic dreams Sam Hirst 2 Morphean space and the metaphysics of nightmare: Gothic theories of dreaming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Notebooks Kirstin A. Mills 3 The devil’s light: Marx, Engels, and diabolic Enlightenment Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove Part II: Early classic Gothic dreams and nightmares 4 The monsters of prophecy in the Gothic dream, 1764–1818 Richard W. Moore Jr 5 Haunted beyond dreams: the Gothic and Enlightenment in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary, A Fiction Liz Wan Yuen-Yuk Part III: Victorian and nineteenth-century European Gothic dreams and nightmares 6 Wide awake and dreaming: the night, the haunt, and the female vampire Maria Giakaniki 7 Spectral traces: dream manifestation in the Gothic short story Nicola Bowring 8 ‘I have seen faces in the dark’: Gothic visions in the Society for Psychical Research’s Census of Hallucinations Alice Vernon Part IV: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Gothic dreams and nightmares: weird fiction, horror film, television, and video games 9 Stranger things: nightmarish realities in Thomas Ligotti’s fiction Elisabete Lopes 10 Night walking: the oneiric horror cinema Murray Leeder 11 Building the Gothic channel: dreams, spectral memories, and temporal disjunctions in The Witcher Lorna Piatti-Farnell 12 ‘Lest the night carry on forever’: the transcendent Gothic unconscious in Bloodborne James Aaron Green Index -- .
Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor -- .
