Carol Davison Gothic dreams and nightmares

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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.

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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

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Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor

Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 300 ● ISBN 9781526160614 ● Mărime fișier 3.5 MB ● Editor Carol Davison ● Editura Manchester University Press ● Oraș Manchester ● Țară GB ● Publicat 2024 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 9374666 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM

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